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Susanne Jonas

Susanne Jonas   
    Title:  Lecturer, Latin American and Latino Studies
    Email:  sjonas@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-3232 Office
    Office:  Merrill 110
    Office Hours:  Fall 09 ~ Wednesdays 1:00-3:00PM and by appt.

Education History 
Ph.D., Political Science
U.C. Berkeley

Courses Taught 
08-09
LALS 142A - Central American Revolution, Intervention, and Social Change
LALS 162 - U.S. Policy in Latin America
LALS 173 - Latin American Immigration to the U.S.
LALS 194E - Latino International Migration
LALS 194N - Las Izquierdas de America Latina
LALS 195A - Social Justice Research and Writing

07-08
LALS 142A - Central American Revolution, Intervention, and Social Change
LALS 173 - Latin American Immigration to the U.S.
LALS 194E - Latino International Migration
LALS 194N - Las Izquierdas de America Latina
LALS 195A - Social Justice Research and Writing

06-07
LALS 142A - Central America: Revolution, Intervention, and Social Change
LALS 162 - U.S. Policy in Latin America
LALS 173 - Latin American Immigration to the U.S.
LALS 194E - Latino International Migration
LALS 194N - Las Izquierdas de America Latina
LALS 195A - Social Justice Research and Writing

Research Focus 
Latin American immigration and Latino communities in the U.S., comparative Latin American politics, contemporary Central America, Central American binational organizing, U.S.-Latin American cross-border issues, U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, the Left in Latin America, comparative peace processes in Central America and worldwide.

Selected Publications 

Publications: Authored Books (including entire journal issues):

(in progress) co-author, with Nestor Rodríguez, Perilous Journeys: Guatemalan Migrants in a Changing Region (advance contract with University of Texas Press)

Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2000)
 – Spanish edition, De Centauros y Palomas: El Proceso de Paz Guatemalteco (FLACSO/Guatemala, 2000)

The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads and US Power (Westview Press, 1991);
 – Spanish edition, with new introduction/update, La Batalla por Guatemala (Caracas, Venezuela: Nueva Sociedad and FLACSO/Guatemala, 1994).

La Ideología Social Demócrata en Costa Rica (San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana (EDUCA), 1984)

Guatemala: Plan Piloto para el Continente (translation of Ph.D. dissertation) (San José,: EDUCA, 1981)

Nicaragua (full issue of NACLA’s Latin America and Empire Report) (North American Congress on Latin America), February, 1976
 – Spanish edition published in Costa Rica, circulated throughout Nicaragua and Central America

Guatemala Breaking Free (full issue of NACLA’s Latin America and Empire Report), March, 1974

(co-author), Yanqui Dollar: The Contribution of U.S. Private Investment to Underdevelopment in Latin America (Berkeley: NACLA, 1971)

Political Union: A Microcosm of European Politics, 1960-1966 (Leyden, Netherlands: Sijthoff, 1967)

Publications: Co-Edited Books and Full-Length Journal Issues:

(co-editor and major contributor), Globalization on the Ground: Postbellum Guatemalan Development and Democracy (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001)

(co-editor and major contributor) Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1999).

(co-editor and contributor) Beyond the Neoliberal Peace: From Conflict Resolution to Social Reconciliation, special issue of Social Justice (Winter 1998).

      (co-editor) Latin America Faces the 21st Century: Reconstructing a Social Justice Agenda (Boulder,
      CO: Westview Press, 1994).

(co-editor and major contributor) Democracy in Latin America: Visions and Realities (NY: Greenwood/ Bergin and Garvey, 1990)

(co-editor and contributor) Guatemala: Tyranny on Trial (Synthesis, 1984)

(co-editor and contributor) Nicaragua Under Siege (Synthesis, 1984)

(co-editor and major contributor) Revolution and Intervention in Central America (Synthesis, 1981 and 1983)

(co-editor and contributor) The New Nomads: From Immigrant Labor to Transnational Working Class (Synthesis, 1982)

(co-editor and contributor) Contradictions of Socialist Construction (Synthesis, 1979)

(co-editor) Strategies for the Class Struggle in Latin America (full issue of Contemporary Marxism, #1, Spring 1980)

(co-editor and major contributor) Guatemala (Berkeley: NACLA, 1974)
 – Spanish edition, Guatemala: Una Historia Inmediata (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1976)

Publications: Academic/Analytical Journal Articles, Monographs, and Book Chapters:
 (NOTE: Op-Ed and Shorter/Conjunctural Articles listed separately)

    “The Process of Building Transregional Migrant Advocacy Networks: Guatemalan and
   Salvadoran Experiences," in Manuel Angel Castillo & Jorge Santibanez (Eds.), Seminario 
   Permanente sobre Migración Internacional: Nuevas Tendencias y Nuevos Desafíos, Volumen
   II (México: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, El Colegio de México y Sociedad Mexicana de
   Demografía, 2007)

 “Dinámicas de las redes transregionales de defense de los derechos de migrantes guatemaltecos y salvadorenos: Una exploración preliminar,” in Natalia Saltalamacchia, Francis Pisani et al. (Eds.), Redes sociales en la Cuenca de los Huracanes: nueva perspectiva sobre las relaciones interamericanas, (México: Porrrúa,  2007)
  
"Reflections on the Great Immigration Battle of 2006 and the Future of the Americas," Social Justice, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2006)

“Reframing the Immigration Debate: The Post-Election Challenge to Public Intellectuals,” LASA Forum (Latin American Studies Association), Winter, 2005
 - Spanish version published by FLACSO/Guatemala in Diálogo, Número Extraordinario, Oct. 2005
 - to be republished in Sonia Alvarez and Arturo Arias (Eds.), Decentering Latin American Studies (Latin American Studies Association(LASA)/Pittsburgh University Press, forthcoming)

“Decolonization from within the Americas: Latino Immigrant Responses to the U.S. National Security Regime, and the Challenges of Reframing the Immigration Debate,” in Ramón Grosfoguel, Nelson Maldonado Torres and José David Saldivar (Eds.), Latin@s in the World-System: Towards the Decolonization of the U.S. Empire in the 21st Century (Paradigm Press, 2005)

“Guatemala” textbook chapter in Harry Vanden and Gary Prevost (Eds.), Politics in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2005) – second edition
 – previous version in first edition of textbook, 2001

(co-author) “Latino Immigrant Rights in the Shadow of the National Security State: Responses to Domestic Pre-emptive Strikes” Social Justice, Spring/Summer, 2004

“Democratization through Peace: The Difficult Case of Guatemala,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Winter 2000 (Special Issue, Ed. by John Booth)
 – partial Spanish version previously published by FLACSO/Guatemala, as “Las Dimensiones de la democracia en Guatemala,” Dialogo #8, August, 1997
 – revised version, in Christopher Chase-Dunn et al. (Eds.), Globalization on the Ground: Postbellum Guatemalan Development and Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001)

“Reconceptualizing Citizenship and Immigration Policy in the Americas: Cross-Border Perspectives,” in Norma Klahn, et al. (Eds.), Las Nuevas Fronteras del Siglo XXI (Mexico, La Jornada/UNAM/UAM, 2000)
 – Spanish version (in Reader for Regents’ Diversity Initiative, Summer Institute, UCSC)
 – previous version published in Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas (1999)

“Guatemala” for Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (second edition) (Oxford University Press, 2001)
 – Guatemala entry in first edition of Oxford Companion… (1993).

(co-author) “La migración guatemalteca en los EE.UU., 1980-1996,” in Cuadernos de Desarrollo Humano: Población y Migración en el Area Rural (Guatemala: United Nations Development Program, 2000.

(co-author) “Guatemala: Intervention, Repression, Revolt and Negotiated Transition,” in Thomas Walker and Ariel Armony (Eds.), Repression, Resistance and Democratic Transition in Central America (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2000).

“Between Two Worlds: The U.N. in Guatemala,” in Tommie-Sue Montgomery (Ed.), Peace-Making and Democratization in the Western Hemisphere (Miami: North-South Center Press, 2000).

“The Mined Road to Peace in Guatemala,” Agenda Paper #38 (Miami: North-South Center, University of Miami, 1999).

“‘National Security,’ Regional Development and Citizenship in U.S. Immigration Policy: Reflections from the Case of Central American Immigrants and Refugees” in Max Castro (Ed.), Free Markets, Open Societies, Closed Borders? Trends in International Migration and Immigration Policy in the Americas (Miami: North-South Center, 1999).
 – Spanish version published in Manuel Angel Castillo, et al. (Eds.), Migración y Fronteras (Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico, 1998).

Review in American Historical Review (February 1998) of Yvon Le Bot, La Guerra en Tierras Mayas;
 – Spanish version in Mesoamérica (December 1998).

“Guatemala’s Peace Accords: An End and a Beginning,” NACLA Report on the Americas May/June 1997.

“Las Metas y los Procesos de Paz en Guatemala,” in Rosalinda Bran, Claudinne Ogaldes (Eds.), Los Retos de las Paz, la Democracia, y el Desarrollo Sostenible en Guatemala (Guatemala: FLACSO, 1996).

“Dangerous Liaisons: The U.S. in Guatemala,” Foreign Policy (Summer, 1996).

“Reflections on ALAS ‘95: ‘El Congreso de la Esperanza’ and Paradigm Redefinition,” LASA Forum (Latin American Studies Association), Winter 1996.

“Guatemala” for Collier’s International Yearbook, 1997 (New York: P. F. Collier, 1997); reprinted in Funk and Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia Yearbook (1997);
 – similar entries written for Collier’s in 1996, 1995, and 1994.

“Transnational Realities and Anti-Immigrant State Policies: Issues Raised by the Experiences of Central American Immigrants and Refugees in a Tri-national Region” in Roberto Korzeniewicz and William Smith (Eds.), Latin America in the World Economy (Westport: Greenwood, 1996).
 – earlier version in IRIPAZ, Estudios Internacionales (Guatemala), Jan.-June, 1995

“War and Peace and the Central American Diaspora in California,” in Nora Hamilton and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla (Eds.), Central Americans in California: Transnational Communities, Economies and Cultures (Los Angeles: Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies, University of Southern California, 1996).

“Electoral Problems and the Democratic Project in Guatemala,” in Mitchell Seligson and John Booth (Eds.), Elections and Democracy in Central America Revisited (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995);
 – Spanish version in Nueva Sociedad (Venezuela) #130, March-April 1994.

“Guatemala: Encrucijada entre la Guerra y la paz” (“Guatemala at the Crossroads of War and Peace”), Espacios #2 (publication of FLACSO/Costa Rica), Oct. – Dec. 1994.

“Dedication and Tribute” [to four deceased Latin American colleagues], and (co-author) “Introduction: The Quest for Social Transformation in Latin America,” in Latin America Faces the 21st Century (Westview, 1994)
  -- Spanish version of “Dedication/Tribute” in Revista Costarricense de Ciencias Sociales, Mar. 1994

“Text and Subtext of the Guatemalan Political Drama,” LASA Forum (Latin American Studies Association), Winter, 1994;
 – Spanish version in El Día (Mexico), 3/3/94 and 3/4/94

 “Guatemala” update for Collier’s Encyclopedia (New York: Macmillan, 1993)

“Dialéctica de la Revolución y Contrarrevolución Guatemalteca,” in Marta Casaus and Teresa García (Eds.), Centroamérica: Balance de una Década 1980-1990, Vol. II (Madrid, Spain, CEDEAL, 1994)

“Salvadoran Peace Accords: Can the Fragile Balance Hold?” The Nation 6/1/92

“La Evolución de la Política Norteamericana en Centroamérica: El Caso de Guatemala,” in Las Relaciones Estados Unidos-Centroamérica (Cuaderno de FLACSO/Guatemala #7) 1992

“Central America in Transition: Between an Imperial Past and an Uncertain Future,” in David Broad and Lori Foster (Eds.), The New World Order and the Third World (Montreal, Black Rose, 1992);
 – Spanish version in Nueva Sociedad #118 (Venezuela) (March-April 1992)

“‘New Thinking’ or More of the Same? Bush Administration Policy in Central America,” New Political Science, Fall/Winter, 1990;
 – Spanish versions in Marta Casaus and R. Castillo (Eds.), Centroamérica: Balance de una Decada, 1980-1990, Vol. I (Spain, CEDEAL, 1993), and excerpts in FLACSO, Centroamérica Internacional (Costa Rica), Oct.-Nov. 1990, and El Día Latinoamericano (Mexico), 2/18/91

“Central America in the Balance: Prospects for the 1990s,” Monthly Review, June, 1990;
 – Spanish version, in El Gallo Ilustrado (Sunday supplement to El Día) (Mexico), 8/26/90
 – Spanish version in Estudios Sociales Centroamericanos (CSUCA, Costa Rica), Sept.-Dec. 1990

(co-author), “The Construction of Democracy in Nicaragua,” Latin American Perspectives, Summer, 1990

“Reagan Administration Policy in Central America,” in David Kyvig (Ed.), Reagan and the World (New York: Greenwood, 1990)

“Elections and Transitions in Central America: the Guatemalan and Nicaraguan Cases,” in John Booth and Mitchell Seligson (Eds.), Elections and Democracy in Central America (University of North Carolina Press, 1989);
 – Spanish version in Polémica (FLACSO, Costa Rica), #6, 1988

“Contradictions of Guatemala’s Political Opening,” Latin American Perspectives, Summer, 1988

“Whose Transition? Whose Guatemala?,” World Policy Journal, Winter, 1987-88

(co-author) “Obstacles to the Peace Process in Central America,” in John Kirk and George Schuyler (Eds.), Central America: Democracy, Development and Change (New York: Praeger, 1988)

“The Reagan Administration and Central America” and “The Reagan Doctrine in Nicaragua,” in Rigoberto García (Ed.), Central America: Crisis and Possibilities (Stockholm, Sweden: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1988)

“Rollback Politics: The Reagan Doctrine in Central America” in Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives, December, 1987

“The Reagan/Kissinger Assault on Central America,” in Nicaragua Under Siege (1984)

“The Complicity of the U.S. Government and U.S. Capital in the Violation of Human Rights in Guatemala,” in Guatemala: Tyranny on Trial (1984)

“Revolución e Intervención en Centroamérica: Perspectivas y Problemas para el Movimiento Anti-intervencionista,” in Pablo González Casanova (Ed.), Estados Unidos Hoy (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1984)

“Contradictions of Revolution and Intervention in Central America in the Transnational Era: The Case of Guatemala,” in Revolution and Intervention in Central America (1983 edition)

“Guatemala en el Torbellino de la Política de Guerra Fría de los Estados Unidos,” Administración y Política (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 1983)

(co-author) “Changes in the International Division of Labor and Low-Wage Labor in the US,” in Albert Bergeson (Ed.), Crises in the World System ( (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1982)

(co-author) “Re-industrialization and the Transnational Labor Force in the U.S. Today,” in The New Nomads: From Immigrant Labor to Transnational Working Class (1982)

“Central America as a Theater of US Cold War Politics,” Latin American Perspectives, Summer, 1982

“The Nicaraguan Revolution and the Reemerging Cold War,” in Thomas Walker (Ed.), Nicaragua in Revolution (Praeger, 1982)
 – Spanish version in Nicaráuac (Nicaragua) #6, 1982
 – excerpted version published in Stanford Central America Action Network, Revolution in Central America (Boulder: Westview, 1983)

“Fifty Years of Revolution and Intervention in Central America,” Overview/Introduction to Revolution and Intervention in Central America, 1981 (and 1983)
 – Spanish version in Fondo de Cultura Económica/CIDE, Cuadernos Políticos (Mexico) #29, July-September, 1981

“Reagan y Guatemala,” Cuadernos de Marcha (Mexico) November-December, 1980

“La declinación del imperialismo norteamericano y la revolución en Centroamérica,” Estudios Sociales Centroamericanos (Costa Rica), September-December, 1980

(co-author) “Proletarianization and Class Alliances in the Americas,” in Terrence Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein (Eds.), Processes of the World-System ( (Sage, 1979)

“Classquake in Guatemala,” Guatemala and Central America Report, June, 1976;
 – Spanish version in Cuadernos del CICA (Costa Rica) (1976) and in Guatemala, (1976)
 – portions used as documentation for Hearings of House Subcommittee on International Organization, on Human Rights in Central America (1976)
 – version published in Guardian, August, 1976

“Trade Union Imperialism in the Dominican Republic,” NACLA’s Latin America & Empire Report, April 1975

Textbook chapter, 130 pp., “Guatemala,” in Ronald Chilcote and Joel Edelstein (Eds.), Latin America: The Struggle with Dependency and Beyond (Cambridge, MA: Schenkman, 1974)

“Revolution (1944-54) and Counterrevolution (1954-74),” several-chapter section of Guatemala, (NACLA, 1974)

(with Seymour Menton and James Nelson Goodsell), “Report of Ad-Hoc Committee on Guatemala,” Latin American Studies Association, 1973

“Masterminding the Mini-Market: U.S. Aid to the Central American Common Market,” in NACLA’s Latin America and Empire Report, May-June, 1973
 – excerpted version in Stanford Central America Action Network (Ed.), Revolution in Central America (Westview, 1983);
 – Spanish version in Rafael Menjivar (Ed.),  La Inversión Extranjera en Centroamérica (San José: EDUCA, 1974),
 – Spanish version in Fernando Fajnzyller et al. (Eds.), Corporaciones Multinacionales en América Latina ( (Buenos Aires: Periferia, 1973),
 – Spanish version in Estudios Sociales Centroamericanos (Costa Rica) #7, January-March, 1974

“Dependency and Imperialism: The Roots of Latin American Underdevelopment,” Politics and Society, May, 1971
 – previous version in NACLA Newsletter, May-June, 1970
 – revised version in K.T. Fann & Donald Hodges (Eds.), Readings in U.S. Imperialism (Porter Sargent: 1971)
 -- reprinted in Ira Katznelson et al. (Eds.), The Politics and Society Reader (David McKay: 1974)
 – Spanish version published by Programa Centroamericano de Ciencias Sociales (San José, Costa Rica)

“The Ideology of Developmentalism: American Political Science’s Paradigm-Surrogate for Latin American Studies,” in Sage Professional Papers, Comparative Politics Series, 1971
 – previously published in Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 1970;
 – Spanish version in Desarrollo Económico (Argentina), April-June, 1970

“The Social Democratic Ideology in Latin America: The Case of Costa Rica’s Partido Liberación Nacional,” Caribbean Studies, October, 1970
 – Spanish version in Prensa Política (Costa Rica), November 1972

“The Bankruptcy of the Social Democratic Movement in Latin America,” New Politics, Winter, 1969
 – Spanish version in Estudios Internacionales (Chile) #12, January-March, 1970

“Stagnation in Liberty: The Frei Experiment in Chile,” two-part series in NACLA Newsletter, February 1969 and March 1969

“US Labor’s Conservative Role in Latin America,” The Progressive, November 1967
 – reprinted in Hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on American Institute for Free Labor Development (Washington: GPO, 1969)

“The Hidden Invaders: Our Civilian Takeover in the Dominican Republic,” Liberation, February, 1967

“The AFL-CIO in Latin America: The Dominican Republic: A Case Study,” Viet-Report, September-October, 1967
 -- Spanish version published in Dominican Republic

“The ‘Political Union’ Debate in Europe: A Case Study in Intergovernmental Diplomacy, International Organization, Winter, 1967

Publications: Op-Ed Articles and Letters to the Editor:

 – “50th Anniversary Lessons from Guatemala,” for Knight-Ridder News Service (6/2004)
 – letter to Editor (Marlon Brando as critic of U.S. foreign policy), Los Angeles Times, 7/7/2004
 – “A New Guatemalan Tragedy in the Making?,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4/26/2000
 – letter to the Editor (on U.S. Cuba policy), New York Times, 1/2/2000
 – “Guatemala Peace Endangered,” Christian Science Monitor, 7/12/99
 – “It is a Question of Justice: Decision to deport Guatemalans and Salvadorans Wrong,” San Francisco Chronicle, 3/15/99
 – “Put Truth about U.S. Role on the Agenda,” Los Angeles Times, 3/3/99
 – reprinted in Houston Chronicle, 3/5/99
 – excerpts published in Spanish in Guatemala, elPeriódico, 3/10/99
 – letter to the Editor (on Latino Immigrants), San Francisco Chronicle, 12/3/98
 – letter to the Editor (on Guatemala/South Africa), New York Times, 12/9/97
 – “Guatemala’s ‘Adios’ To War,” Christian Science Monitor, 12/26/96
 – “The Absurd ‘Guategate’ Denials,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4/21/95
 – “Indecent Liaisons: The U.S. and Guatemala’s Army,” Christian Science Monitor, 4/17/95
 – letter to the Editor (on Guatemala), New York Times, 4/12/95
 – “For a Just Peace in Bloody Guatemala,” Miami Herald, 3/5/93
 – published in Spanish in El Nuevo Heraldo (Miami) and in Siglo Veintiuno (Mexico), 5/20/93
 – “Bring Peace to Guatemala,” San Francisco Chronicle 2/6/93
 – “Guatemala’s Threat to Central America Peace,” San Francisco Chronicle, 5/7/92
 – “U.S. Must Get Behind Peace in El Salvador, Guatemala,” Christian Science Monitor, 1/10/92
 – (co-author, for Council on Hemispheric Affairs), ”Tie Strings on U.S. Aid to Guatemala,” Christian Science Monitor, 6/4/91
 – “Archbishop Deplores Violence,” San Francisco Chronicle, 10/11/89
 – “In Latin America, Opportunity Knocks,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/23/88
 – “Washington’s Dangerous ‘Game’ in Central America,” Christian Science Monitor, 12/20/88
 – “Guatemala in the Balance, “ Berkshire Eagle, 11/30/88 (for Council on Hemispheric Affairs)
 – “Putting Guatemala’s House in Order,” Boston Globe, 12/7/87
 – “Central American Peace Beyond Nicaragua,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 11/3/87
 – “Double Standards for Latin Democracy,” Los Angeles Times, 10/25/87
 – reprinted in San Francisco Chronicle, 11/3/87
 – published in Spanish, in El Correo de Andalucia (Spain), 11/16/87

Publications: Shorter, Conjunctural Articles:

- “Continuities and Changes in Post-War Guatemala,” in Jonathan Moller, Our Culture is our
     Resistance (Powerhouse Books, 2004)
– Spanish version published in Madrid, Spain: Turner Libros, 2004
 – “Looking for Loopholes: Powerful Forces Resist Accord Implementation,” GNIB/NISGUA Report on Guatemala, Fall 1997
 -- “Left Establishes Its Presence in Guatemalan Elections,” NACLA Report on the Americas, Jan.-Feb. 1996
 -- “Fifty Years after the Revolution: Rediscovering the Legacy of October 1944,” GNIB/NISGUA Report on Guatemala, Winter, 1994
 – “How Washington Destabilizes its ‘Democratic Allies,” GNIB/NISGUA Report on Guatemala, November-December, 1988
 – “Guatemala: Keeping the Lid On, “ NACLA Report on the Americas, Sept.-Oct. 1988
 – “Central America Peace Accords ‘Don’t Apply’ in Guatemala,” GNIB/NISGUA Report on Guatemala, March-April, 1988
 – “Guatemala’s Dirty Secrets,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 8, 1988
 – “In Guatemala, ‘General Descontento’ Takes Charge” (9/28/88) (for Pacific News Service)
 – “Central America Peace Plan Takes on Momentum of its Own,” published in Los Angeles Daily Journal (Burrell’s), “’Why Did They Sign?’ Is the Common Question in Central America,” 8/28/87, and in other newspapers (written for Pacific News Service)
 – “El Salvador Uprising,” NACLA Report on the Americas, May-June, 1978
 – “El Salvador, Land of Free Zones,” El Pulgarcito (San Francisco: Comité de Salvadorenos Progresistas), August-September 1977
 – “Dateline Guatemala,” in NACLA’s Latin America & Empire Report, January 1977
 – “Guerrilla Resurgence Shakes Nicaragua,” The Guardian, February 19, 1975
 – revised version in New American Movement, March 1975
 – “Labor Ferment in Puerto Rico,” The Progressive, December, 1975
 – “Cuban Exiles and Watergate,” NACLA’s Latin America & Empire Report, November 1973
 – “Guatemala: Test Case for the Hemisphere,” NACLA’s Latin America & Empire Report, October 1973
 – “Guatemala: The Struggle Resumes,” New American Movement, September 1973
 – “Guatemala: Politics of Violence,” NACLA’s Latin America & Empire Report, February 1972
 – “Inside a State of Siege: Legalized Murder in Guatemala,” Ramparts, June 1971
 – (co-author) “Brazil: Gorillas and Guerrillas,” Leviathan, March 1970
 – (co-author)”Peru: The Foreign Managers,” Leviathan, July-August 1969
 – (co-author) “Beyond the [UFW] Grape-Pickers’ Strike,” Hard Times, May 12-19, 1969

Publications: Miscellaneous:

       – (co-compiler, with four other members of University of California, Santa Cruz, Faculty
            Against the War), Gulf War Reader, February 1991
       – (founder/editor/main writer), Guatemala Report — subsequently Guatemala & Central
            America Report (nine issues, 1972-1976)