Book Review Essay: More Terrible Than Death
Human Rights Watch researcher Robin Kirk says her intention in More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs and America’s War in ...
Colombia: The Right Gathers Momentum
In the countdown to the May 26 presidential elections, Colombians are bracing for increasing violence while support grows for independent ...
Repeating Past Mistakes: Aiding Counterinsurgency in Colombia
On January 11 of this year, President Clinton pleaded for "emergency spending" for Colombia. But "emergency" seemed a misnomer, since ...
Into the Andean Quagmire: Bush II Keeps Up March to Militarization
The Andean region—Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia—has, since the 1980s, been the main theatre of action in the drug war; ...
Book Review Essay: Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
With almost all U.S. military assistance to Latin America now justified by the war on drugs, any consideration of U.S ...
