Reality and research: some relationships for the Eighties ( North America and Latin America).

Advances the thesis that a principal task of N American economic and social geographers for the 1980s is to aid and encourage Latin American geographers to increase the volume, breadth, and depth of their own research. This thesis is based on the perception that the balance between research generated or originated by Latin American as opposed to Latin Americanists is now shifting rapidly and steadily S and represents a healthy trend. Inevitably the focus of the work changes in the process. -after Author