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Economic Crisis, Natural Disasters Reduce Mexico's Agriculture Production, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Zedillo Administration Reiterates Forecast Of 3 Percent Gdp Growth In 1996, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Mexico To Begin To Observe Daylight Savings Time This Year, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Colombian Congress Shelves Probe Of President Samper; Lack Of Evidence Cited, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Gap Between Guatemalan Presidential Candidates Closes Substantially, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Rene Preval Wins Haitian Presidency; Now Faces Serious Challenges, Ladb Staff

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Central American Summit On Regional Security Skirts Demilitarization Issue, Ladb Staff

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Poverty Remains Pervasive Throughout Latin America, Ladb Staff

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European, Latin American Investment To Boost Cuba's Tourism Industry, Ladb Staff

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Analysis: Zedillo's First Year, President, Or Prisoner Of Crisis?., Guest Author

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President Ernesto Zedillo Announces Controversial Cabinet Changes, Ladb Staff

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The Nazca Lines, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

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Veracruz (State), Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

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Encouraging Relational Investment And Controlling Portfolio Investment In Developing Countries In The Aftermath Of The Mexican Financial Crisis, Randall S. Thomas, Enrique Carrasco

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Global financial markets trade about $1 trillion of securities each day. Investors in these markets seek the highest returns by shiffing huge amounts of capital from nation to nation, "playing global monopoly... and deciding which governments deserve to 'Pass Go' and collect $200 billion dollars and which should go directly to jail and be starved of the capital to raise living standards." International competition for capital gives global investors tremendous leverage over developing nations' economic policies.

Investors will shift capital into developing countries that adopt macroeconomic policies to ensure stable, high rates of effective return. However, if returns drop, or …

Lessons From The Americas: Guidelines For International Response To Amnesties For Atrocities, Douglass Cassel

Journal Articles

Amnesty guidelines modeled on international law as defined by Latin American tribunals and treaties should be adopted and used by the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and national governments involved in remedying human rights violations. The 10 guidelines are stringent and would rarely result in the granting of amnesty. They may better serve their function than treaties or customary laws be cause they are guidelines and not mandatory.

"Never Draw Unless You Mean To Shoot": United States Department Of State's Responses To Property Seizures In Latin America, Nathan D. Younge

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines the U.S. Department of State's diplomatic handling of disputes over the seizure of U.S.-owned property in Latin America between 1937 and 1973. Seizures in Bolivia, Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Peru and Chile are used as case studies, and provide examples of successful and unsuccessful diplomatic outcomes.

Several key factors are analyzed in each dispute, including Several key factors are analyzed in each dispute, including whether the Department took a conciliatory or confrontational approach toward each country, the kind of economic pressure applied, the situations under which the Department opted for official diplomatic involvement, and the types of informal …

[Introduction To] The Postmodern In Latin And Latino American Cultural Narratives: Collected Essays And Interviews, Claudia Ferman

Bookshelf

In Latin America the postmodern debate contains two big areas of controversy, which are deeply rooted in history and which have profound cultural and political significance. First, the postmodern debate encompasses a series of aesthetico-cultural subjects, such as questions related to literary genre, the processes of literaturization and deliteraturization or the questions of gender associated with textual production. Secondly, the postmodern debate relates to considerations about the processes of the transnationalization of economic and cultural production, and their complex implications concerning questions of identity and cultural production in Latin America.

Interview With Peruvian Expert On Anti-Drug Policy In Three Andean Nations, Patricia Hynds

NotiSur

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Controversial Election Law Approved In Nicaragua, Ladb Staff

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Honduran Court Ruling Could Free Military Officers Accused In 1982 Case, Ladb Staff

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Municipal Elections A Setback For Bolivian President Sanchez De Lozada, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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U.S. Probes Working Conditions In Central American Maquiladora Plants, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Central American, European Nations Redefine Framework For Trade, Cooperation, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Bolivia, Chile Negotiating Entry Into Mercosur, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Sharp Drop In Tax Collections In Mexico Reflects Impact Of Economic Crisis, Ladb Staff

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Televisa, Foreign Partners To Offer Satellite-Based Programming In U.S., Americas, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Panamanian President Perez Balladares Facing Several Controversies, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Local Elections Bring Return Of Two-Party System To Venezuela, Ladb Staff

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Scandal Rocks Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's Government, Ladb Staff

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Nicaraguan Unions Strike Against Telephone Privatization Law, Ladb Staff

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