Chile and the Traps of Memory
Nostalgia for the Light, a documentary film by Patricio Guzmán (Icarus Films), 2011, 90 mins., Spanish with English subtitles. ...
Uruguay: The Right to the Truth
On May 20, the Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies voted down a proposal to annul a law that protects former members ...
Beyond the Drug War: The Pentagon’s Other Operations in Latin America
Stryker armored vehicle test in Suriname (yuma.army.mil).For the last two decades, the dominant narrative justifying the U.S. military’s activities in ...
No End in Sight: Violence in Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, is known as a city of death.1 Perhaps the most violent place ...
Making Sense of Colombia-Venezuela Relations
For anyone following Venezuela-Colombia relations, developments over the past few months have caused some significant head scratching. First, after the ...
Machos y Putas: Masking Mexico’s Violence
He’s dead and she’s half naked. Two images I encounter at every newspaper stand in Mexico City—machos y putas. A ...
‘Dying Isn’t Enough’: A Young Hit Man in Michoacán
I found Beto by chance. For several months in 2007, I had been searching for the so-called child soldiers of ...
In Search of Real Reform: Lessons From Mexico’s Long History of Drug Prohibition
I had thought that drug-policy-related violence had become so routine, and had gone on for so long, that it had ...
