The Values of Water: Development Culutres and Indigenous Cultures in Highland Ecuador / ROBERT ANDOLINA p3
State Institutions, Power, and Social Networks in Brazilian Urban Policies / EDUARDO MARQUES p27
The Agrarian Rentier Political Economy: Land Concetration and Food Insecurity in Colombia / NAZIH RICHANI p51
Public Security Forces with Private Funding: Local Army Entrepreneurship in Peru and Ecuador / MAIAH JASKOSKI p79
A Foreign Policy for Domestic Consumption: Mexico's Lukewarm Defense of Castro, 1959-1969 / RENATA KELLER p100
A False Start on the Road to Mercosur: Reinterpreting Rapprochement Failure between Argentina and Brazil, 1972 / CHRISTOPHER DARNTON p120
Foreign Direct Investment and Home Country Political Risk: The Case of Brazil / SANDRA AGUIAR, LUÍS AGUIAR-CONRARIA, MOHAMED AZZIM GULAMHUSSEN, AND PEDRO C. MAGALHÃES p144
RESEARCH REPORTS AND NOTES
Geofrafías de viloencia y exclusión: Pandillas encarceladas en Honduras / LIRIO GUTIÉRREZ RIVERA p167
Changes to Agricultural Decision Making and Food Procurement Strategies in Rural Paraguay / ELIZABETH FINNIS, CLOTILDE BENÍTEZ, ESTELA FATIMA CANDIA ROMERO, AND MARIA JOSÉ APARICIO MEZA p180
REVIEW ESSAYS
Decentralization and Its Discontents / JOSEPH S. TULCHIN p191
Living Conditions of the Poor in Latin Amercia / ROBERT GAY p200
Contemporary Peruvian Politics and Policy / GERD SCHÖNWÄLDER p208
Drugs, Violence, and Life in Mexico / STEPHEN D. MORRIS p216
Museos y otras representaciones colectivas en América Latina / ÁLVARO FERNÁNDEZ BRAVO p224
Translated Abstracts p231
Notes on the Contributors p235
Forthcoming in Volume 47, Number 3 p239