A New Doctrine of Insecurity? U.S. Military Deployment in South America
The announced redeployment this summer of the U.S. Navy’s Fourth Fleet, a World War II–era flotilla, to patrol the Caribbean ...
The Candidates and Latin America
With an increasing number of presidential primaries occurring around the country in the very early part of 2008, those of ...
White Paper, Red Scare
If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can ...
The Internal Policy Debate
Looking beyond crude electoral calculations, a number of Clinton's foreign-policy specialists have pushed internally for a moderate relaxation of sanctions ...
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; ...
Central America, November and Beyond
Today, when the word has gone round That these people are bankrupt We on the other continents (which are indeed ...
Remapping Caribbean Geopolitics
A South African military jet filled with arms bound for Haiti was grounded in Jamaica in February 2004 because the ...
Washington’s ‘New War’ in Colombia: The War on Drugs Meets the War on Terror
In 1997—back when there was no such thing as a “war on terror” and George W. Bush was just a ...
