Widening Destruction: Drug War in the Americas

“Nation building” is what it’s all about, argues Max Manwaring, a professor of military strategy at the U.S. Army War

1946: Violence erupts in the countryside between followers of a Conservative Party oligarchy seeking to reclaim ancestral lands and followers

BUENOS AIRES—On the afternoon of May 25, María Alejandra Bonafini—the 35-year-old daughter of Hebe Bonafini, president of the human rights

Colombia boasts a dizzying array of landscapes: from high Andean páramos to the tropical Amazon, from arid deserts to the

Despite the growing public feeling that the drug war has failed, Attorney General John Ashcroft has declared that he wants

For the first time in nearly half a century, Bolivia has been dropped from the list of major drug-producing countries.

For the third consecutive year, the State Department has deemed that Haiti is failing to fully cooperate with the United

If Plan Colombia is an anaconda trying to wrap its coils around Latin America, Ecuador is already in its grip:

It is regarded as axiomatic in certain circles that the purpose of U.S. foreign policy is to bolster the interests

On June 8, 2001, a verdict was announced in the Bishop Juan Gerardi assassination case. The Bishop was bludgeoned to

On Monday June 25 Hernán Mejía Campuzano, first vice-president of the Colombian Soccer Federation (FCF), was kidnapped by FARC guerrillas

Scientist David Sands calls the microscopic life form a “silver bullet,” a sure-fire weapon that would win the war on