Newsbriefs
Impunity Continues In Haiti PORT-Au-PRINCE, AUGUST 7, 1996 On July 24, a Haitian jury acquitted two alleged gunmen in the ...
Prison Mayhem: Venezuela’s Explosive Penitentiary Crisis
In response to rising poverty and growing crime, the Venezuelan government has been busily shoving its "undesirables" behind prison walls ...
War By Other Means: Colombia’s Faceless Courts
It is late in the afternoon, and the municipal building of Sabana de Torres, a small, dusty town in Colombia's ...
U.S. Support for Haiti’s Rookie Police Force
On February 17, 1996, the ninth class of police cadets graduated from the National Police Training Center just outside Port-au-Prince, ...
Taking Note
Sao Paulo Forum VI in San Salvador In this era of neoliberalism, the mainstream press tends to ridicule and misrepresent ...
Letters
The Immigration Debate David Stoll has done us all a ser- vice by suggesting in his letter to the editor ...
INJUSTICE FOR ALL Crime and Impunity in Latin America
This past April, a former police officer was convicted in Rio de Janeiro for the 1993 shooting of one of ...
The Return of Somocismo? The Rise Of Arnoldo Alemán
Arnoldo Alemin, presidential candidate of the revived Liberal Constitutionalist Party (PLC), arouses strong emo- tions among his opponents. Former President ...
