Guns: The Small Arms Trade in the Americas

Semi-secretly established in 2005, a Salvadoran branch of the International Law Enforcement Academy, a U.S.-sponsored global network of police schools,

Shipping powders back and forth Black goes south and white comes north. — “Throwing Stones,” John Perry Barlow for the

U.S. Relations with Latin America During the Clinton Years, by David Scott Palmer, University Press of Florida, 2006, 144 pp.,

Gun violence has plagued Latin America since the early days of the colonial era. In June, archaeologists excavating an old

In 1997, President Bill Clinton, standing beside Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo in the Organization of American States’ flag-bedecked Hall of

In October, Costa Rica became the last signatory nation to ratify the U.S.–Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). A

In the film Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore set up the audience to be shocked by statistics of gun deaths

On January 28, Patricia Troncoso, a prisoner hospitalized in the city of Chillán, in southern Chile, ended her hunger­ strike

Pinochet may have reached the apex of corrupt government arms trafficking in Latin America, but he was by no means

Small arms and gun violence present the most dramatic threat to public safety in Latin America and the Caribbean. After

The arrest of Augusto Pinochet at a London hospital on October 17, 1998 — after Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón filed

The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, a film by Greg Palast (DVD, 2007, 24 minutes, www.gregpalast.com) Puedo hablar?/May I Speak?, a