Militarization

February 27, 2024
Michael Fox

The 2009 U.S.-backed coup ruptured Honduras’s three-decade-old democracy. Despite a media blockade, militarization, and deadly repression, the people took to the streets—and refused to back down.

November 11, 2022
David Martínez

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer’s book effectively centers Indigenous struggles within the discourse of the border, but her efforts to assume an Indigenous point of view fall short.

August 31, 2022
Evan King

Durante décadas, las abundantes reservas de petróleo de Arauca han provocado conflicto entre grupos armados ilegales, el ejército colombiano y empresas multinacionales.

August 25, 2022
Evan King

For decades, oil-rich Arauca has been the site of intense conflict involving illegal armed groups, the Colombian military, and multinational corporations. 

May 3, 2019
Brett J. Kyle & Andrew G. Reiter

Across the region, militarization is on the rise, posing a major threat to democracy and justice. What can be done?

January 17, 2019

Trump’s wall is just the latest incarnation of an old fixation.

January 3, 2019
Livia Peres Milani

The passage of two decrees in Argentina that allow the army to respond to transnational threats like drug trafficking and terrorism challenge important demilitarization efforts that ended the country’s military dictatorship. 

 

July 27, 2018
Brett J. Kyle and Andrew G. Reiter

Across the region, Latin America’s militaries are regaining power through the court system

July 19, 2018
Miriam Pensack

The Trump administration’s ongoing detention and deportation of asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border has echoes of the U.S. internment of over 40,000 Haitians fleeing violence in their homeland in the early 1990s.

March 27, 2018
Rafaela Cardoso and Margit Ystanes

What does the assassination of Rio de Janeiro councilmember Marielle Franco—a prominent LGBTQI activist and socialist, outspoken critic of the police, and Rio’s only black councilmember—mean for the future of Brazil?

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