Paramilitary Games
When I first spoke with Dirce, she heaved a big sigh. I had called to ask if I could interview ...
Medellín: The Peace of the Pacifiers
The ride into Medellín, Colombia, is spectacular, especially at night, when lights sprawl up the western hills about a mile ...
Colombia and Brazil: Deadly Diversions
Pinochet may have reached the apex of corrupt government arms trafficking in Latin America, but he was by no means ...
The Failure of Colombia’s “Democratic Security”
Professor Alfredo Correa De Andreis was a respected member of the community in Barranquilla and a peace activist. He had ...
Peace Talks, But No Peace
Shortly after the 1994 New Year rebellion, the Zapatistas and the government negotiated a cease-fire. Four years later, Chiapas has ...
Politics as Organized Crime in Colombia?
As the rest of Latin America continues its seismic political shift to the left, Colombia moves starkly in the opposite ...
One in Every 40 Colombians, a Refugee
The local priest was first to challenge the dark- ness in Guintar by stringing Christmas lights from the church steeple ...
Silent War in Nicaragua: The New Politics of Violence
At 2:30 p.m. on June 15, 2000—more than ten years after the U.S.-sponsored Contra war officially ended in Nicaragua—a guerrilla ...
