Minding the Backyard: Washington’s Latin America Policy After the Cold War

A decade ago, transitions from dictatorship to elected civilian government, and from civil war to negotiated peace, changed the political

After Alberto Fujimori's sudden call on September 16 for new elections and for dissolution of the Gestapo-like National Intelligence Service

Early morning on September 15, El Salvador's Independence Day, the community of Suchitoto was awakened by the roar of planes

In September of this year, over 2,000 protesters gathered outside the White House demanding an end to the U.S. Navy

In what for lack of a better term has come to be dubbed the post-Cold War era, progressives seeking to

Militarizing the Home Front The new U.S. doctrine also poses dangers to civil liberties in the United States itself. The

On November 18 and 19, well over 10,000 people will gather just outside the main gate of the Ft. Benning

SANTIAGO—A former secret policeman has revealed that the clinic in which Chile's former President Eduardo Frei Montalva died in 1982

The United States may share a hemisphere with Latin America, but the region is far from the first thing on

When the U.S. government first announced its 1989 "Andean Initiative"—a five-year, $2.2 billion plan targeting coca and cocaine production—the Andes