Militarized Democracy in the Americas: Faces of Law and Order

SANTIAGO DE CHILE—The arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London on October 17 has been hailed as signalling

Surrounded by lush green mountains on one side and the light blue ocean on the other, the neighborhood of São

This is a highly personal account of a filmmaker's journey into the Amazon to record the gold mining rush and

When Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi was found lying in a pool of blood this past April, his face beaten in

When Republican Congressional leaders intro- duced a S2.6 billion drug-war proposal July this year, including S300 million for the construction

"It's nothing special," says the over-fed, weasely cartoon banker, explaining the enormous unpayable debt owed to the Mexican banks. "It's

As the countries of the Americas slip deeper into an economic model of growth and development that exacerbates inequality and

Despite the transitions from direct military rule in Latin America and the emergence of market democracies in nearly every country,

Every 15 days, residents of Solano, a small city in the jungles of southern Colombia, watch an army plane take

In my capacity as a chaplain at a local county hospital, I recently had occasion to accompany a farnily from

It is often remarked that history is written by the victors. As we approach the millenium, history's current victors are

On the evening of September 27, 1998, Border Patrol agents shot and killed a man who was attempting to cross