Colombia: AIDS in the Time of War
A few months before Myrian Cossio’s 20th birthday, in San José del Guaviare, a bustling frontier town deep in Colombia’s ...
Party Politics, Reformism and Political Violence in Colombia
Colombia's two nineteenth-century oligarchical par- ties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, still dom- inate the political arena at the close ...
War and Profit in Colombia
On July 13, President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill that includes a package of $1.3 billion in mostly ...
One in Every 40 Colombians, a Refugee
The local priest was first to challenge the dark- ness in Guintar by stringing Christmas lights from the church steeple ...
EL SALVADOR The New and Old War
El Salvador no longer dominates the headlines from Central America. The foreign press corps has dwindled to a handful of ...
Focus on Central America
On July 19, 1979, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) toppled the U.S.-supported Somoza family dictatorship that had ruled Nicaragua ...
LA PALMA A Report on the Negotiations
The peace that Duarte has offered is being dropped from his A-37 planes. Radio Venceremos (FMLN), October 17, 1984. I ...
El Salvador Violence: Politics become personal
El Salvador Violence: Politics become personal Fred Rosen In 1981, Salvadoran politics took a turn for the grisly: In November, ...
