A Military-Paramilitary: Alliance Besieges Colombia
Every 15 days, residents of Solano, a small city in the jungles of southern Colombia, watch an army plane take ...
Street Gangs: A LETTER FROM SARA MEZA ROMERO
In my capacity as a chaplain at a local county hospital, I recently had occasion to accompany a farnily from ...
Remembering the Revolution
It is often remarked that history is written by the victors. As we approach the millenium, history's current victors are ...
Militarizing the Border Patrol
On the evening of September 27, 1998, Border Patrol agents shot and killed a man who was attempting to cross ...
Deported “Home” to Haiti
On the second day of his return to Haiti––after living 11 years in the United States––22-year-old Patrick Etienne is overcome ...
Pinochet’s Arrest Threatens “Consensus Politics” In Chile
SANTIAGO DE CHILE—The arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London on October 17 has been hailed as signalling ...
Deadly Force:Security and Insecurity in Rio.
Surrounded by lush green mountains on one side and the light blue ocean on the other, the neighborhood of São ...
Book Review Essay: Dispatches From a Vanishing Frontier by Geoffrey O’Connor
This is a highly personal account of a filmmaker's journey into the Amazon to record the gold mining rush and ...