Lava Jato in Bolivia: Boon or Bane for Evo Morales?
Will an inquiry into Bolivia’s potential ties to the massive Lava Jato bribery scandal help Evo Morales, or derail his ...
Wachovia, Tyson and Wal-Mart: The Transnational Face of Impunity
In Mexico, it is not only Mexican institutions that play the impunity game. While it has become commonplace to argue ...
The People vs. The Pirates: Controversy Abounds in Haitian Reconstruction Investigations
With the release of two separate investigations this week, it is becoming increasingly clear why the reconstruction has failed the ...
If at First You Don’t Succeed… The United States Renews its Pursuit of Aristide
While a miscarriage of justice over the trial of Jean Claude Duvalier is currently occurring in Haiti, the United States ...
The Arizona Border Militia Scandal
A week after the scandal broke around Arizona sheriff Paul Babeu's threat to deport his ex-lover, Mexican Jose Orozco, I ...
A Dangerous Precedent: Why Haiti Must Try Jean Claude Duvalier for Human Rights Abuses
The recent announcement that former Haitian dictator Jean Claude Duvalier will stand trial for corruption charges related to his embezzling ...
Iran-Contra Remix for the Twenty-First Century
In the 1980s Ronald Reagan’s administration illegally defied Congress. What came to be called the “Iran-Contra Scandal,” a nexus of ...
The Showdown Between the Judiciary and the Santos Government
During the government of Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Colombian courts defended their independence and the separation of power by holding the ...
