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 ...
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 ...
Colombia’s Most Unlikely Prisoner
At 49 years of age, Arturo Ulloa stands about three-and-a-half feet tall. Crutches enable him to drag a twisted body ...
NACLA on Imperialism, 1966-1996
At the heart of U.S. foreign involvement lies pri- vate corporate expansion.... U.S. corporate structure is increasingly worldwide in scope ...