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INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Giorgio Alberti Jose Antonio Ocampo Universita degli Studi, Bologna Fedesarrollo, Bogota Raymond Buve Luis Ortega University of Leiden Universidad de Santiago, Chile Eliana Cardoso Alain Rouquie Tufts University Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Tulio Halperin Donghi Paris University of California, Berkeley Lars Schoultz Soledad Loaeza University of North Carolina Colegio de Mexico Edelberto Torres-Rivas Jose Alvaro Moises FLACSO, Sanfose, Costa Rica Universidade de Sao Paulo, Bratril Emilia Viotti da Costa Guillermo O'Donnell Yale University Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame and CEBRAP, Sao Paulo

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VOLUME 26 PART I FEBRUARY I994

EDITORS VICTOR BULMER-THOMAS Professor of Economics, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London

LAURENCE WHITEHEAD Official Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College, Oxford

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ARTICLES The Spanish-American Tradition of Representation, and its European Roots i FRANCOIS-XAVIER GUERRA Wild Rubber: Industrial Organisation and the Microeconomics of Extraction During the Amazon Rubber Boom (i860—1920) 37 BRADFORD BARHAM AND OLIVER COOMES Cardenismo: Juggernaut or Jalopy? 73 ALAN KNIGHT COCEI in Juchitan: Grassroots Radicalism and Regional History 109 JEFFREY W. RUBIN Rebels without a Cause? The Politics of Entrepreneurs in Chihuahua 137 YEMILE MIZRAHI In Search of Revenue: Tax Reform in Mexico under the Administrations of Echeverria and Salinas 15 9 CARLOS ELIZONDO The Political Economy of Recent Conversions to Market Economics in Latin America 191 DAVID E. HOJMAN

COMMENTARY Human Rights in Processes of Democratisation 221 MANUEL ANTONIO GARRETON M. REVIEWS David Sowell, The Early Colombian Labor Movement: Artisans and Politics in Bogota, iSj2—i}i} and Hernan Horna, Transport Modernisation and Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth Century Colombia: Cisneros and Friends, reviewed by Christopher Abel 23; David Bushnell, The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself reviewed by Marco Palacios 237 Charles Bergquist et al., Violence in Colombia: The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective, reviewed by Eduardo Posada-Carbo 238 Jane M. Rausch, The Llanos Frontier in Colombian History iSjo-ifjo, reviewed by Eduardo Posada-Carbo 240 Jeremy Adelman (ed.), Essays in Argentine Labour History, iSyo-i^)o, reviewed by Rick Halpern 241

Sandra McGee Deutsch and Ronald H. Dolkart (eds.), The Argentine Right: Its History and Intellectual Origins, 1910 to the Present, reviewed by Austen Ivereigh 242 Haim Avni, Argentina and the Jews. A History 0/Jewish Immigration, reviewed by Ignacio Klich 243 Carlos Barbe, Le ombre del passato: Dimension! culturali e psicosociali di un processo di democrati^a^ione, reviewed by Giorgio Alberti 245 Peter Ranis, Argentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness, reviewed by James P. Brennan 247 Alan Angell and Benny Pollack (eds.), The Legacy of Dictatorship: Political, Economic and Social Change in Pinochet's Chile, reviewed by J. Samuel Valenzuela 249 Saul Sosnowski and Louise B. Popkin (eds), translated by Louise B. Popkin, Repression, Exile and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture, reviewed by Alexandra Barahona de Brito 250 Thomas Millington, Debt Politics After Independence: The Funding Conflict in Bolivia, reviewed by William Lofstrom 252 Ronnie Vernooy, Starting All Over Again: Making and Remaking a Living on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, reviewed by Peter Sollis 253 Elizabeth M. Thomas-Hope, Explanation in Caribbean Migration, reviewed by Ceri Peach 254 Sarah A. Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood (eds.), ' Viva': Women and Popular Protest in Latin America, reviewed by Judith Adler Hellman 2 5 5 Daniel Touro Linger, Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City, reviewed by Paulo Sergio Pinhciro 256 Roger Bartra, Agrarian Structure and Political Power in Mexico, reviewed by David Barkin 257 Frank Cancian, The Decline of Community in Zinacantdn: Economy, Public Life, and Social Stratification, 1960-19/7, reviewed by John Gledhill 259 Doren L. Slade, Making the World Safe for Existence: Celebration of the Saints among the Sierra Nahuat of Chignautla, Mexico, reviewed by Frank Cancian 260 Marianne Schmink and Charles H. Wood, Contested Frontiers in Amazonia, reviewed by Andrew Hurrell 261 Michael F. Brown and Eduardo Fernandez, War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon, reviewed by John Crabtree 262 Ralph W. Harbison and Eric A. Hanushek, Educational Performance of the Poor: Lessons from Rural Northeast Brazil, reviewed by Jere R. Behrman 264 Lynn M. Morgan, Community Participation in Health: The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica, reviewed by John Donahue 265 Victor E. Tokman (ed.), Beyond Regulation: The Informal Economy in Latin America, reviewed by J. J. Thomas 266 Patricia A. Wilson, Exports and Local Development: Mexico's New Maquiladoras, reviewed by Joseph Grunwald 268 Tarsicio Castaneda, Combating Poverty: Innovative Social Reforms in Chile during the 1980s, reviewed by Christopher Scott 269 George Psacharopoulos and Zafiris Tzannatos, Women's Employment and Pay in Latin America: Overview and Methodology, reviewed by Ann Varley 271 J. M. Albala-Bertrand, The Political Economy of Large Natural Disasters With Special Reference to Developing Countries, reviewed by Colin M. Lewis 272 Peter H. Smith (ed.), Drug Policy in the Americas, reviewed by Clare Hargreaves 273 Alistair Hennessy and John King (eds.), The Land that England Lost: Argentina and Britain, a Special Relationship, reviewed by Celia Szusterman 274 Jan S. Adams, A Foreign Policy in Transition: Moscow's Retreat from Central America and the Caribbean, 19^-1992, reviewed by Vladimir Stanchenko 277 Wayne S. Smith (ed.), The Russians Aren't Coming: New Soviet Policy in Latin America, reviewed by Nicola Miller 278 James A. Nathan, The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited, reviewed by Nicola Miller 279 Barbara Stallings and Gabriel Sze'kely (eds.), Japan, the United States, and Latin America, reviewed by Nigel Harris 280 William I. Robinson, A Faustian Bargain: US Intervention in the Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era and Vanessa Castro and Gary Prevost (eds.), The 1990 Elections in Nicaragua and their Aftermath, reviewed by Andres Perez 282

Beatriz Satlo, ha Imagination Te'cnica: Suenos Modernos de la Cultura Argentina, reviewed by Diego Armus 283 Mike Gonzalez and David Treece, The Gathering of Voices: The Twentieth-Century Poetry of Latin America and Iris M. Zavala, Colonialism and Culture: Hispanic Modernisms and the Social Imaginery, reviewed by Nicola Miller 28 5

NEW BOOKS RECEIVED 287