Colombia and Brazil: Deadly Diversions
Pinochet may have reached the apex of corrupt government arms trafficking in Latin America, but he was by no means ...
The Small Arms Trade in Latin America
Small arms and gun violence present the most dramatic threat to public safety in Latin America and the Caribbean. After ...
Pincohet, Arms Merchant
The arrest of Augusto Pinochet at a London hospital on October 17, 1998 — after Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón filed ...
Demystifying Chávez
The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, a film by Greg Palast (DVD, 2007, 24 minutes, www.gregpalast.com) Puedo hablar?/May I Speak?, a ...
Another SOA?: A Police Academy in El Salvador Worries Critics
Semi-secretly established in 2005, a Salvadoran branch of the International Law Enforcement Academy, a U.S.-sponsored global network of police schools, ...
Guns: The U.S. Threat to Mexican National Security
Shipping powders back and forth Black goes south and white comes north. — “Throwing Stones,” John Perry Barlow for the ...
Comparing Post–Cold War Strategies
U.S. Relations with Latin America During the Clinton Years, by David Scott Palmer, University Press of Florida, 2006, 144 pp., ...
Guns: The Small Arms Trade in the Americas
Gun violence has plagued Latin America since the early days of the colonial era. In June, archaeologists excavating an old ...