MACLAS Latin American Essays
Volume XV (March 2001)
Preface, Acknowledgements & Submission Guidelines
Managing Editor’s Preface
The fifteenth volume in the series of MACLAS: Latin American Essays presents a selection of fifteen papers given at the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Mid Atlantic Council o f Latin American Studies held at American and Howard Universities in Washington D.C. on March 30-31, 2001.Eighty-eight members presented papers. organized into twenty-four panels. Ambassador Diego Abente Brun from the Permanent Mission of Paraguay to the Organization of American States, gave the keynote address, in which he traced the efforts of the OAS to foment democracy in Latin America.
The essays in Volume XV range over the Latin American world, touching upon literary figures from Mexico, Argentina, Honduras, Puerto Rico, and the United States; the history of colonialism in Peru and the nuclear politics of Argentina; the politics and economics of Mexico and Cuba; and some modern manifestations (Jamaican Rastafari, Brazalian Condombl