The Value of Vieques

The Value of Vieques

In September of this year, over 2,000 protesters gathered outside the White House demanding an end to the U.S. Navy ...
Minding the Backyard: Washington's Latin America Policy After the Cold War

Minding the Backyard: Washington’s Latin America Policy After the Cold War

In what for lack of a better term has come to be dubbed the post-Cold War era, progressives seeking to ...
Militarizing the Home Front

Militarizing the Home Front

Militarizing the Home Front The new U.S. doctrine also poses dangers to civil liberties in the United States itself. The ...
Training Assassins

Training Assassins

On November 18 and 19, well over 10,000 people will gather just outside the main gate of the Ft. Benning ...
Who Killed Frei Montalva?

Who Killed Frei Montalva?

SANTIAGO—A former secret policeman has revealed that the clinic in which Chile's former President Eduardo Frei Montalva died in 1982 ...
Profiteering in the Hemisphere

Profiteering in the Hemisphere

The United States may share a hemisphere with Latin America, but the region is far from the first thing on ...
Cocaine Madness: Counternarcotics and Militarization in the Andes

Cocaine Madness: Counternarcotics and Militarization in the Andes

When the U.S. government first announced its 1989 "Andean Initiative"—a five-year, $2.2 billion plan targeting coca and cocaine production—the Andes ...
Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy Toward Latin America (Lars Schoultz);  The United States and Latin America:

Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy Toward Latin America (Lars Schoultz); The Unite...

A decade ago, transitions from dictatorship to elected civilian government, and from civil war to negotiated peace, changed the political ...