Washington’s Prying Eyes
The NSA disclosures, Latin American backlash, and what it means for hemispheric relations ...
Barricading the Border
On August 18, 1971, first lady Pat Nixon inaugurated Border Field State Park. Located in Imperial Beach, California, at the ...
Paco: Drug War Blowback in Argentina
Beginning in mid-2006, news reports in English began appearing about paco, a cheap, highly addictive form of cocaine ravaging the ...
Mexico: Year Zero
For Felipe Calderón, the second president of Mexico to come from the conservative National Action Party, this is year zero ...
Drug Economies of the Americas
In the Americas, the production and sale of illicit drugs generates tens of billions of dollars a year—perhaps far more ...
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 ...
Biowarfare in Colombia? A Controversial Fumigation Scheme
Between 1992 and 1998, about 660,000 gallons of the herbicide glyphosate were sprayed in Colombia to eradicate more than 46,000 ...
It’s Not the Economy
It is regarded as axiomatic in certain circles that the purpose of U.S. foreign policy is to bolster the interests ...
