
Colombia: AIDS in the Time of War
A few months before Myrian Cossios 20th birthday, in San José del Guaviare, a bustling frontier town deep in Colombias ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

A Legacy of War Unearthed
On November 16, 1998, 12-year-old Bernardo González went for a swim in a pond near Puerto Viejo, in north-central Nicaragua ...