Colombia and Brazil: Deadly Diversions

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

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

Pincohet, Arms Merchant

The arrest of Augusto Pinochet at a London hospital on October 17, 1998 — after Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón filed ...
Demystifying Chávez

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

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

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

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

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 ...