2009 Honduras: La Resistencia | Under the Shadow, Ep. 7, Part I
The 2009 U.S.-backed coup ruptured Honduras’s three-decade-old democracy. Despite a media blockade, militarization, and deadly repression, the people took to ...
Can Washington Still Dictate Drug Policy in the Americas?
Washington has succeeded in creating an entrenched drug-war bureaucracy across Latin America. But the momentum in favor of reform is ...
In Tegucigalpa, the Iron Fist Fails
With the rise of zero tolerance, or mano dura (iron fist), policing in Honduras, the capital city has experienced a ...
Clouds Over Colombia
In 1998, Colombians were filled with optimism about the possibility of a negotiated settlement to the armed conflict that has ...
Into the Andean Quagmire: Bush II Keeps Up March to Militarization
The Andean regionColombia, Ecuador, Peru and Boliviahas, since the 1980s, been the main theatre of action in the drug war; ...
Reform in Rio: Reconsidering the Myths of Crime and Violence
In April 2003, Brazils media convulsed with shocking and conflicting images, as they struggled to define new public debates on ...
Brazil’s New Eye on the Amazon
The gleaming military installation rises from the patchy forests surrounding Belém, a city of one million people in Brazils eastern ...
It’s Not the Economy
It is regarded as axiomatic in certain circles that the purpose of U.S. foreign policy is to bolster the interests ...
