Hemisphere Volume 6 Number 3

Hemisphere Volume 6 | Issue 3 Article 1 1995 Hemisphere Volume 6 Number 3 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/lacc_hemisphere Part of the Latin American Studies Commons Recommended Citation (1995) "Hemisphere Volume 6 Number 3," Hemisphere: Vol. 6 : Iss. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/lacc_hemisphere/vol6/iss3/1 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 3 This issue is available in Hemisphere: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/lacc_hemisphere/vol6/iss3/1 Hemisphere A MAGAZINE OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS Volume Six • Number Three Seven Dollars When the Party’s Over: Mexico and the PRI Jennifer L. McCoy Kathleen Logan Desperately Seeking Argentina Jack Child Martin Edwin Anderson Gonzalo Soruco on the Defamation of Character Maria Teresa Romero on the Peruvian Upstart Carmelo Mesa-Lago on Shafted Rafters Orlando J. Perez on Playing at Democracy Manuel Ruiz-Barrera’s Photos from Cuba Hemisphere e A MAGAZINE OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS 'FAIRS Provoking debate on the region’s problems, initiatives and achievements... Providing an intellectual bridge between the concerned publics of North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. 2 4 o 6 Romero 9 -Lago 10 Hemisphere ■ez 14 18 A MAGAZINE OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS Provoking debate on the region’s problems, initiatives and achievements... :Coy 20 Providing an intellectual bridge between the concerned publics n 24 of North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. 28 i Andersen 34 Hemisphere Barrera 38 48 A MAGAZINE OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS tg a 50 Provoking debate on the region’s problems, initiatives and achievements... Providing an intellectual bridge between the concerned publics of North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Subscribe now to Hemisphere—and give as a gift! 1 Year (3 Issues): I US, PR, USVI $27 elsewhere 2 Years (6 Issues): I US, PR, USVI $50 elsewhere Subscription for (check one): □ 1 Year □ 2 Years □ Check or money order (US currency only) enclosed Y o u r N a m e ___________________________________________________ Address_____________________________________________ □ Charge: □ VISA □ MasterCard City/ State/ Pro vince/ Zip_______________________________ Card No. Country_____________________________________________ Exp. Date_ Telephone Number _ Signature _ Subscription for (check one): □ 1 Year 0 2 Years G ift N a m e * _____________________________________________________ * For additional gifts, please enclose a separate Address_____________________________________________ sheet of paper. 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, 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 Y o u r N a m e ____________________________________________________ Address_____________________________________________ □ Charge: □ VISA □ MasterCard City / State/ Pro vin ce/ Zip________________________________ Card No. _ Country_____________________________________________ Exp. Date_ Telephone Number _ Signature _ Subscription for (check one): □ 1 Year 0 2 Years G ift N a m e * _____________________________________________________ * For additional gifts, please enclose a separate Address_____________________________________________ sheet of paper. City/ State/ Pro vin ce/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, 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 Y o u r N a m e ___________________________________________________ Address_____________________________________________ □ Charge: □ VISA □ MasterCard City/ State/ Province/Zip________________________________ Card No. _ Country_____________________________________________ Exp. Date_ Telephone Number, Signature _ Subscription for (check one): □ 1 Year 0 2 Years G ift N a m e * ____________________________________________________ For additional gifts, please enclose a separate Address_____________________________________________ sheet of paper. City/State/Pro vin ce/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 Founding Editor: Anthony P. Maingot Editor: Eduardo A. Gamarra The Temptation to Intervene Richard Millett 2 Deputy Editor: Tricia Juhn Associate Editors: Mark B. Rosenberg, As the Rio Grande Wanes Aaron Segal 4 Richard Tardanico Art Editor: Pedro D. Botta Bibliographer: Marian Goslinga Editorial Assistants: Rene Ramos, Joseph Rogers REPORTS Circulation Manager: Raqueljurado The Message of the Media Gonzalo Soruco Copy Editor: Michael Joslyn 6 Assistant to the Editor: Teresita Marill L.ocal Boy Makes Good M aria Teresa Romero 9 CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Balseros in Limbo Carmelo Mesa-Lago 10 Jan et M. C hernela Lisandro Perez Carol Damian Luis P. Salas Moving Beyond Personalism Orlando J. Perez 14 Elena de Jongh Andrea Seidel Damian J. Fernandez Victor Uribe Dennis J. Gayle FAXFILE 18 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Don Bohning Alejandro Portes Ettore Botta Sally Price FEATURES Wolf Grabendorff David Ronfeldt Alistair Hennessy Selwyn Ryan Harry Hoetnik Steven E. Sanderson M exico Franklin W. Knight Saskia Sassen Vaughan Lewis Andres Serbin Electing Ernesto Jennifer L. McCoy 20 Larissa A. Lomnitz Carol A. Smith Abraham F. Lowenthal Lourdes Sola Juan’s Light Kathleen Logan 24 Andres Oppenheimer Yolande Van Eeuwen R obert A. Pastor Arturo Villar Anthony J. Payne Juan Yaries A rgentina Guido Pennano Guns and Roses Jack Child Hemisphere (ISSN 08983038) is published three 28 times a year by the Latin American and Caribbean Forgotten Minority Martin Edwin Andersen 34 Center of Florida International University. Copyright © 1995 by the Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University. All rights reserved. PHOTO ESSAY Hemisphere is dedicated to provoking debate on the A Portrait of Cuba M anuel Ruiz-Barrera 38 problems, initiatives, and achievements of Latin America and the Caribbean. Responsibility for the views expressed lies solely with the authors. REVIEW FORUM EDITORIAL, CIRCULATION, AND ADVERTISING The Viking of El Salvador Tricia Juhn 48 OFFICES: Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, Florida 33199. Tel: (305) 348-2894. Fax: PUBLICATIONS UPDATE (305) 348-3593. E-mail: [email protected]. EDU. Elections in Latin America Marian Goslinga 50 SUBSCRIPTIONS: US, USVI, PR and Canada: $20 a year; $36 for two years. Elsewhere: $27 a year; $50 for two years. Please make check payable to Hemisphere. Credit card orders (MC/VISA only) are also acceptable. C 0 M M E The Temptation to Intervene Richard Millett braham Lowenthal of FDR himself used the threat of over ingly disenchanted with military the Inter-American whelming military force to promote intervention as an instrument of for Dialogue once sug the ouster of Cuban dictator eign policy, especially since the gested that United Gerardo Machado. Truman consid unhappy outcome of US involve States policy toward ered sending troops into Colombia ment in Somalia. There may now be Latin America could during the 1948 Bogota riots, but even less enthusiasm for multilateral be summed up in two popularwisely slo refrained from such action. interventions than for unilateral Agans: Arpege’s “promise them any Eisenhower turned to proxy forces operations, a tone reflected in the thing,” and Hallmark's “when you supported by the CIA to oust the policy pronouncements of some care enough to send the very best.” Arbenz regime in Guatemala. congressional leaders. By the latter, Lowenthal was refer Kennedy used the threat of force to One factor in this may be the per ring to our repeated tendency to dis pressure the Trujillo family out of vasive power of television, what patch the Marines and/or other ele the Dominican Republic, launched Ambassador Clovis Maksoud of The ments of our armed forces to Latin an unsuccessful exile invasion of American University has described America, ostensibly to promote the Cuba, and barely avoided armed as the “CNNization of the world.” region’s own best interests. intervention in Haiti. Lyndon The defects and dangers of military

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