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Hemisphere Volume 6 Article 1 Issue 1 Winter/Spring 1994 Hemisphere Volume 6 Number 1, Winter/Spring 1994 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/lacc_hemisphere Part of the Latin American Studies Commons Recommended Citation (1994) "Hemisphere Volume 6 Number 1, Winter/Spring 1994," Hemisphere: Vol. 6 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/lacc_hemisphere/vol6/iss1/1 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the Kimberly Green Latin American and Carribbean Center (LACC) Publications Network at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hemisphere by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Hemisphere Volume 6 Number 1, Winter/Spring 1994 This issue is available in Hemisphere: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/lacc_hemisphere/vol6/iss1/1 Hemisphere A MAGAZINE OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS Winter I Spring 1994 Volume Six • Number One Seven Dollars Crisis and Election: Brazil Mauricio A. Font,] Timmons Roberts, Katherine Ellison Crisis and Election: Mexico Jorge Castaneda, Martin Edwin Andersen, Othon Banos Ramirez A New Politics of Guerrilla Insurgency? Walter Gillis Peacock, David Stoll Watson on the Promise of Reformism in Mexico Maingot on Rethinking Caribbean Sovereignty Adams on Grassroots Capitalism Hughes on Mexican Election, US Voters Griffith on Geonarcotics in the Caribbean Grenier on Classical Music in Haiti Hemisphere 2 ■ A MAGAZINE OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS •FAIRS Provoking debate on the region’s problems, initiatives and achievements... 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Subscribe now to Hemisphere—and give as a gift! 1 Year (3 Issues): $20 US, PR, USVI $27 elsewhere 2 Years (6 Issues): $36 US, PR, USVI $50 elsewhere Subscription for (check one): □ 1 Year □ 2 Years □ Check or money order (US currency only) enclosed Your N am e________________________________________ □ Charge: □ VISA □ MasterCard Address_____________________________________________ City/ State/ Pro vin ce/ Zip_______________________________ Card No. ________________________________ Country ____________________________________________ Exp. Date_ Telephone Number__________________________________ Signature _ Subscription for (check one): □ 1 Year □ 2 Years Gift Name*_________________________________________ For additional gifts, please enclose a separate Address_____________________________________________ sheet of paper. 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City/ State/ Province/Zip Country______________________________________________ Mail this form with payment to: Hemisphere, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199. Or call (305) 348-2894 or fax (305) 348-3593 and charge it to your credit card. Subscribe now to Hemisphere—and give as a gift! 1 Year (3 Issues): $20 US, PR, USVf $27 elsewhere 2 Years (6 Issues): $36 US, PR, USVI $50 elsewhere Subscription for (check one): □ 1 Year D2 Years □ Check or money order (US currency only) enclosed Your N am e_________________________________________ □ Charge: □ VISA Address_____________________________________________ □ MasterCard City / State/ Pro vince/ Zip_______________________________ Card No. Country_____________________________________________ Exp. Date_ Telephone N um ber___________________________________ Signature _ Subscription for (check one): □ 1 Year D2 Years Gift Name*__________________________________________ * For additional gifts, please enclose a separate Address ____________________________________________ sheet of paper. City/ State/ Pro vince/Zip_ Country______________ Mail this form with payment to: Hemisphere, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199. Or call (305) 348-2894 or fax (305) 348-3593 and charge it to your credit card. Hemisphere A MAGAZINE OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS EDITORIAL STAFF COMMENTARY Editor: A nthony P. Maingot Deputy Editor: Richard Tardanico Reformist Momentum in Mexico: A US View Managing Editor: Marilyn A. Moore Associate Editors: Eduardo A. Gamarra, by Alexander F. Watson Mark B. Rosenberg Assistant Editor: Sofia A. Lopez The Past Six Years: A Review and Revisit by Anthony P. Maingot Bibliographer: Marian Goslinga Editorial Assistant: Rene Ramos Circulation Manager: Raquel Jurado Copy Editor: Michael B. Joslyn Production Assistants: Cristina Finlay, REPORTS Alka Lachhwani, Teresita Marill Cuba’s New Capitalists by David Adams CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Cardenas, PRI, and the US Vote by Sallie Hughes Jan et M. Chernela Raul Moncarz Elena de Jongh Lisandro Perez Drugs Alter the Security Agenda by Ivelaw L. Griffith Damian J. Fernandez Luis P. Salas Dennis J. Gayle Kevin A. Yelvington Teaching Classical Music in Haiti by Robert M. Grenier EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Don Bohning Guido Pennano Ettore Botta Alejandro Portes FAXFILE Wolf GrabendorfF Sally Price Alistair Hennessy David Ronfeldt Harry H oetink Selwyn Ryan Franklin W. Knight Steven E. Sanderson Vaughan Lewis Saskia Sassen FEATURES Larissa A. Lomnitz Andres Serbin Abraham F. Lowenthal Carol A. Smith Andres Oppenheimer Yolande Van Eeuwen Crisis and Election: Brazil Robert A. Pastor A rturo Villar Anthony J. Payne Juan Yanes A Sociologist Turns to Politics by Mauricio A. Font Crisis and Environment by f. Timmons Roberts Hemisphere (ISSN 08983038) is published three times a year (Fall, Winter/Spring, and Summer) by the Latin American and Caribbean Center of Monetary “Lobotomy” and Inflation by Katherine Ellison Florida International University. Copyright © 1994 by the Latin American and Caribbean Center, Flor Crisis and Election: Mexico ida International University. All rights reserved. Hemisphere is dedicated to provoking debate on the Chiapas and the National Crisis by Jorge Castaneda problems, initiatives, and achievements of Latin America and the Caribbean. Responsibility for the After Chiapas: The Indian Agenda by Martin Edwin Andersen views expressed lies solely with the authors. The New Agrarian Reform by Othon Banos Ramirez EDITORIAL, CIRCULATION, AND ADVERTISING OFFICES: Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, Florida 33199. Tel.: (305) 348-2894. Fax: (305) 348-3593. E-Mail: [email protected]. REVIEW FORUM SUBSCRIPTIONS: US, USVI, PR, and Canada: War and Accountability in Guatemala by Walter Gillis Peacock $20 a year; $36 for two years. Elsewhere: $27 a year; $50 for two years. Please make check or money Love-Death among the Guerrillas by David Stoll order (US currency only) payable to Hemisphere. Credit card orders (MC/VISA only) are also acceptable. PUBLICATIONS UPDATE This docum ent was produced at a cost o f $8,891.75 or $4.45 per copy. Chiapas in the Wider World by Marian Goslinga i c 0 M M Reformist Momentum in Mexico: A US View by Alexander F. Watson would like to highlight that with strong incentives to energize provide for a social safety net dur improved relations with Mex the country’s economy and attract ing the period of economic reform. ico parallel a fundamental foreign investment. With NAFTA, One of the most significant as change in the overall relations Mexico will be drawn further into pects of the economic reforms of of the US with Latin America. the Western community of nations, the Salinas administration has been After a difficult decade of eco a community in which free-market the successful conclusion of NAFTA. nomic reversals, the region has im reforms are closely linked with the NAFTA entered into force on Janu plemented far-reaching political political legitimacy that stems from ary 1 and has begun to permanently and economic reforms that have open, free, and democratic politics. alter the trading patterns of North contributed to an economic up The US is confident that the Mexi America. The opening of the Mexi turn that has attracted investors can government has responded to can economy will increase overall worldwide. Mexico has led the way the situation in Chiapas in a forth economic efficiency and growth,