Abstract:The articles contained in this issue of Latin American Perspectives cover the diverse yet not unrelated topics of debt, drugs, and the containment of progressive social movements through economic and other more subtle means of social control. Separately, the articles offer new information and original analyses with which to consider problems of such ongoing importance. The authors have conducted extensive field research throughout the region, in agricultural areas from the valleys of Peru to the highlands of G… Show more
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