Latin rural populations are very large now at this time of severest soil erosion and deforestation. We wait on bated breath for industrializ-ation to provide jobs, trade and prevent wars.

Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and other very poor countries are on or near the Mexican border that no one wants to control. Is El Salvador saved by remittances from its many thousands of migrants working in the US ? AIDS-infected Haiti is another, this time hopeless, problem, with women fighting in waterlines in situations even worse than Guatemala.

Military repression is the consequence of poverty, and all governments know that hunger makes revolution. The American, French, Russian and Mexican revolutions are classic guides. A government cannot be both popular and repressive.

The proposal here is to make the complex social transition from farm to city rapidly in CA & SA.