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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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; ...
A Precarious Peace in Putumayo
The arrival of demobilization efforts to a remote, former FARC stronghold in Colombia has brought many welcome changes and challenges ...
A Dark Day in Colombia
To the shock of Colombians and international observers, Colombia’s historic peace process has been stopped in its tracks after 50.2% ...
A Peaceful Putumayo?
Colombia’s peace agreement brings hope and concern to rural areas like Putumayo, dominated by the drug trade and controlled by ...
No Peace for Colombia
After 15 years, the hollow triumphs of Plan Colombia have created a nation of victims where impunity still reigns supreme ...
