The Pentagon's Proteges: U.S. Training Programs For Foreign Military Personnel

The Pentagon’s Proteges: U.S. Training Programs For Foreign Military Personnel

In April, President Obama and Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, reinitiated discussions on establishing a free trade agreement ...
Appendices: Foreign Military Assistance to El Salvador

Appendices: Foreign Military Assistance to El Salvador

"Extremist elements in El Salvador retain capability to initiate limited attacks on public order, but are not ex- pected to ...
Military Assistance Trends

Military Assistance Trends

"Increased military assistance as a con- comitant to the Nixon Doctrine seems inescap- able to me," a top Pentagon official ...
Alliance for Power: U.S. Aid to Bolivia Under Banzer

Alliance for Power: U.S. Aid to Bolivia Under Banzer

In June 1972 John Connally, President Nixon's personal emissary to Latin America, relayed the administration's "warmest wishes" to Bolivian President ...
Explosive Growth in U.S. Weapons' Export. Dealing Arms in the Third World

Explosive Growth in U.S. Weapons’ Export. Dealing Arms in the Third World

In the January 1972 issue of the Report, NACLA noted that as Congress reduced spending on the Military Assistance Program ...
U.S.-Mexico: Military Buildup

U.S.-Mexico: Military Buildup

Mexico is the most important country in the Americas for the United States, both for reasons of national security and ...
WAR GAMES

WAR GAMES

ON JUNE 23, U.S. POLITICAL OFFICER JOHN Butler was shot to death in Grenada's police headquarters. Also gunned down was ...
Into the Andean Quagmire: Bush II Keeps Up March to Militarization

Into the Andean Quagmire: Bush II Keeps Up March to Militarization

The Andean region—Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia—has, since the 1980s, been the main theatre of action in the drug war; ...