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 Small Arms Trade in Latin America
Small arms and gun violence present the most dramatic threat to public safety in Latin America and the Caribbean. After ...
Yanquis Return to El Salvador
Early morning on September 15, El Salvador's Independence Day, the community of Suchitoto was awakened by the roar of planes ...
In the Grip of the Anaconda
If Plan Colombia is an anaconda trying to wrap its coils around Latin America, Ecuador is already in its grip: ...
Storm Over Columbia
In July 1997, the paramilitary group known as the United Self-Defense Units of Colombia (AUC) went on a grisly killing ...
War and Profit in Colombia
On July 13, President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill that includes a package of $1.3 billion in mostly ...
Training Assassins
On November 18 and 19, well over 10,000 people will gather just outside the main gate of the Ft. Benning ...
Y2K Anxieties in Panama
On the eve of the transfer of the Panama Canal, U.S. conservatives are invoking the specter of imminent chaos in ...
