Exclusive: A.I.D. Police Programs for Latin America 1971-72
In November 2010, the United Nations eliminated protections from extrajudicial or arbitrary executions because of sexual orientation. With the support ...
Democracy and Plan Colombia
President George W. Bush has asked the American people to “be patient” so that Iraq can become like Colombia—so that ...
Counter-Revolutionary Software Keeps up with Hardware in U.S. World Policing Effort
The U.S. arsenal of techniques for suppressing or manipulating people in the Third World is being stocked through the efforts ...
Counterinsurgency = Impunity
THE WAR AGAINST SENDERO LUMINOSO HAS become synonymous with the systematic violation of human rights. About half of the nearly ...
THE WIDER WAR
U.S. Special Forces crawl through the dense jungles of the Panama Canal Zone in simulated warfare. Forty-five ships, three times ...
Washington’s Addiction to the War on Drugs
When Republican Congressional leaders intro- duced a S2.6 billion drug-war proposal July this year, including S300 million for the construction ...
Cocaine Madness: Counternarcotics and Militarization in the Andes
When the U.S. government first announced its 1989 "Andean Initiative"—a five-year, $2.2 billion plan targeting coca and cocaine production—the Andes ...
Refueling a Doomed War on Drugs: Flawed Policy Feeds Growing Conflict
Within days following September 11, the international chorus of heartfelt concern for the victims and their families was followed by ...
