Political Violence

El Salvador Violence: Politics become personal Fred Rosen In 1981, Salvadoran politics took a turn for the grisly: In November,

Eyewitness to a Coup“In September, 1973, I was a 26-year-old doctoral student finishing my dissertation research ... my own political

Six months ago it was unimaginable that Cuban exiles would line up to return to their native land readied for

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

On the morning of October 5, Julián Andrés Hurtado, a 29-year-old student leader at the University of Valle in Cali, Colombia, died from gunshots to the head. Julian, who was just one week away from graduation, served as a student representative to the academic council of his school, the largest public university in Cali.

On September 2, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana's People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP), was sworn in to a second five-year term in office. Given the level of violence that marked Jagdeo's last five years as president, August 28's relatively incident-free election was a major success for a country in drastic need of a societal transformation, let alone political change.

In February 2004, U.S. Marines whisked away then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti amid an armed rebellion led by disgruntled former soldiers and paramilitary actors. Despite the presence of a United Nations peacekeeping force, violence and poverty increased under the U.S.-backed interim government led by Interim Prime Minister Gérard Latortue, which courted the elite and its international backers while alienating Haiti's overwhelming poor majority. The crisis hit a low point last December and January, with daily shootings in the poor neighborhood of Cité Soleil and an outbreak of kidnappings.

On August 5th, 2006, a large group of men and women from the town of Telixlahuaca assembled in front of the state-owned radio and television station Corporación Oaxaqueña de Radio y Television (CORTV) on the western edge of Oaxaca City, to read a petition and declare themselves to be in solidarity with the Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de Oaxaca (APPO).