Coercion Incorporated: Paramilitary Colombia

The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chávez and the Making of Modern Venezuela by Brian A. Nelson, Nation

Arriving in Quito after a direct flight from Bogotá, one easily realizes that the “brotherhood of nations” rhetoric traditionally used

December 16 was not a day of joy for Aida Quilcué and her family. While most Colombians were kicking off

In February, Rodrigo Pérez Alzate, a former paramilitary leader, completed three days of public court testimony in Colombia about his

In May, the Colombian senate began deliberations on a draft law that would grant pardons to former paramilitaries, including those

In the hamlet of Imbirí la Loma in Colombia’s southwestern department of Nariño, Yaneth Sosa and her family once struggled

On March 25, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 rolled into El Paso to report on Mexican drug-cartel violence. Cooper was one

The inauguration on June 1 of El Salvador’s new president, Mauricio Funes, followed a historic election in March, in which

Throughout the spring of 2007, women and men made almost ritual rounds looking for jobs at fewer and fewer garment

On March 25, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 rolled into El Paso to report on Mexican drug-cartel violence. Cooper was one

In early May, while the international media’s concern for Mexico fixated on the swine flu, two events heightened political tensions

Sujatha Fernandes’s article “Revolutionary Imagination in Cuba and Venezuela” (March/April) contains the rather startling assertion, unsupported by even anecdotal evidence,