Colombia's chaos is rooted in a long history of exploitation, inequality and instability, not from cocaine. Far from improving the situation, the U.S.'s war on drugs can only make it worse.
Posted on Apr 17, 2001, Source: San Antonio Current
Remember Honduras, the refuge for the Contras during the undeclared, illegal war in Latin America? Twenty years later, one of the conflict's main U.S. players, John Negroponte, has a key position in the new Bush administration.