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Volume 1 Number 2, Winter 1989 Hemisphere Volume 1 Article 1 Issue 2 Winter 1989 1-1-1989 Volume 1 Number 2, Winter 1989 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/lacc_hemisphere Part of the Latin American Studies Commons Recommended Citation (2014) "Volume 1 Number 2, Winter 1989," Hemisphere: Vol. 1: Iss. 2, Article 1. Available at: http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/lacc_hemisphere/vol1/iss2/1 This work is brought to you for free and open access by 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]. Volume 1 Number 2, Winter 1989 This issue is available in Hemisphere: http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/lacc_hemisphere/vol1/iss2/1 ~ii I lis.rl Hemisphere A MAGAZINE OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS Winter 1989 Volume One - Number Two Five Dollars EDITORIAL STAFF LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Editor: Anthony P. Maingot Deputy Editor: Richard Tardanico Associate Editor: Mark B. Rosenberg Book Review Editor: Eduardo A. Gamarra COMMENTARY Bibliographer: Marian Goslinga Realities by Anthony P.Maingot Editorial Assistant: Sofia A. L6pez New Geopolitical Advertising, Circulation, and Forging Consensus by Mark B. Rosenberg Distribution Manager: Adolfo Leyva Marketing Director: Gonzalo Soruco Graphic Designer: Juanita Mazzarella Baert Copy Editor: Rick Eyerdam REPORTS Student Assistants: Rene Ramos, Martha A Year of Elections by Don Bohning Schoolman Freedom and Democracy by Mario Vargas Llosa CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Ecuador: The Politics of Locos by CatherineM. Conaghan Janet M. Chernela Raul Moncarz Rodolfo Cortina Dario Moreno A Political Obituary: Arnulfo Arias of Panama by Steve C. Ropp DennisJ. Gayle Lisandro Perez The Sandinistas and the US Press by Pablo Antonio Cuadra Jerry Haar Luis Salas Peter Habermann Mark D. Szuchman The Contra as Political Gypsies by Joe Eldridge Suzanne Koptur C. 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Ceardenas It manages somehow to be punchy, The readers would be better Director of Research thoughtful, and exciting at the same equipped to analyze the ideas pre- and Publications time. I'll look forward to the next sented and reach their own con- Cuban American issue. Everyone here found clusions on [Central America] if National Foundation something he or she wanted to read opposing points of view appeared in Washington, DC in the first one! the same issue. This is especially Alex Wilde true for a magazine that is published Congratulations from a severe and Director, Washington Office only three times a year. Given such discerning critic for your head start on Latin America long interludes, any magazine that in publishing Hemisphere. I liked it contains only one position on an very much, even though I disagreed issue cannot achieve the balance This first issue has established with about 65 percent of the writers necessary for arriving at just and Hemisphere as mandatory reading for -especially Carlos Monge's "The correct conclusions. Hemisphere's those concerned with Latin Ameri- Political Eclipse of Mario Vargas first issue suffers from this defect. can and Caribbean affairs. Alert to Llosa,"' which I sense is sheer fan- Roberto Sudrez contemporary trends, the magazine tasy/wishful thinking. Editor, El Nuevo Herald succeeds in combining the read- In addition, Andres Oppen- Miami, FL ability of a weekly news journal with heimer's "Cuba to the Aid of the analytical rigor of the academic Noriega?" misses the point. The literature. Comprehensive in its geo- real story is Noriega's aid to Cuba in graphic and thematic coverage, How lucky we are to have Andres the matter of drugs, a story that Hemisphere provides a venue where Oppenheimer ("Cuba to the Aid of has grown steadily and disastrously be many different points of view can Noriega?") to assure us that the over the years. aired. Recognizing that no perspec- presence of Cubans in Panama is Jack H. Vaughn truth is tive has a monopoly of the not something the US should be Senior Advisor in Natural Resources the a first step towards achieving concerned about. and Environmental Management elusive goal of understanding the Does it matter that the New York ROCAP/USAID direction in which our hemisphere Times reported that General Noriega Guatemala is moving. is relying on agents from Cuba's Sergio Diaz-Briquets notorious America Department to Director, Commission for Hemisphere will no doubt fill a vac- Research counsel him on standing up to US the Study of International uum in the Caribbean because of its pressure and bolstering his domestic mix of serious journalism and read- Migration and Cooperative power? Economic Development able academic writing. Oppenheimer's report propagates Carlos A. Romero Washington, DC the myth that Fidel Castro has for- President, Asociaci6n Venezolana saken his subversive and violent poli- de Estudios del Caribe Hemisphere is very interesting read- cies of the past in order to "mend ing on the sort of subjects fences" with the countries of Latin that are right down my alley. The America. I dare say no evidence I hope you are very proud of production is also of a very high exists whatsoever that this is so. Hemisphere. The breadth of the standard. Whether it is one Cuban or one first issue's content is impressive. Geoffrey Barcant thousand in Panama, we can rest It is a first-rate magazine. Managing Director, assured Cuba's mission is to contra- Lynne C. Rienner Smith, Robertson & Co. Ltd. vene US policy, further isolate the Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. Boulder, CO Trinidad, WI US...... from Latin America.• and Aperpet- I Hemisphere * Winter 1989 Bravo! Hemisphere is most impressive Below is a brief review that I will Congratulations on a fine first issue, and -informative, handsome, a fine mix share with the several libraries with an excellent balance of opinion topics and range of viewpoints. which I am associated, as well as the analysis, and a very wide range of of Judith Vecchione New England Council for Latin issues covered with exemplary com- Executive Producer, American Studies, the New England petence. I would love to contribute WGBH/Educational Foundation and the New some time soon. Journalof History, Boston, MA England Historical Association. TomJ. Farer "... This is a newly-established Director of Law and journal that has come off the International Affairs American University presses in full stride-an 'adult The On behalf of the editors of the birth': mature, confident, outspo- Inter-American Review of Bibliography, ken, balanced. I recommend Hemi- Congratulations! I currently sub- I wish to express to you my warmest sphere enthusiastically as a source for scribe to a number of foreign affairs congratulations for Hemisphere, students, instructors, or anyone who journals, but I found your publica- which is an excellent addition to the wishes to inform him/herself on tion much more useful and interest- literature on our region. Latin America and the Caribbean." ing than most of the others. It is a The caliber of the contributors, JamesJ.Harrington pleasure to see "think pieces" and the diversity of their perspectives, Chair, Social Studies Department feature articles by some of my col- and the sponsorship of Florida Bridgewater-Raynham Regional leagues (Andres Oppenheimer, Ber- International University and its School District nard Diederich), as well as scholarly focal geographical location, are Bridgewater, MA works in such a publication. The assets that all readers will deeply focus on Latin America and the appreciate.
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