Emily Dickinson, Washington Monthly. January 16, 2012.
Colombia’s incredible turnaround strategy has become a rare success story in the drug war, as well as its most formidable brand and export. It is, however, problematic.
Aurelia Fierros, Huffington Post. December 7, 2011.
In part of a move to transfer tactics from the "war on terror" to the "war on drugs", the Pentagon is paying private security firms millions to fight the drug war internationally.
Congress last week approved three long-pending trade deals with Panama, South Korea and Colombia that will likely lead to massive job loss, not job creation.
Like the SlutWalk protests, the crossed legs movement is a new interpretation of women's fight for their rights – one in which sexuality is being used as an empowering tool.
Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. July 16, 2010.
With $7.3 billion spent and 21,000 fighters from all sides and an estimated 14,000 civilians killed, Plan Colombia's positive effects aren't easy to distinguish.
The U.S. should carry out it's own investigation into whether tax dollars went towards the illegal spying program by one of its major Latin American allies.
West: "Obama has a team that understands the black agenda to be a narrow, parochial, provincial slice of America that he can assume he always has because he’s a black President."
Dole Foods and Chiquita may be on the verge of facing justice for 'pacifying' their work force, suppressing labor unions and terrorizing peasant squatters in Colombia.
The forty-year-old Colombian war shows no signs of ceasing. Its fed by a billion dollar drug trade, political division and an international land battle.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the U.S. army has "plans to invade" his country from Colombia, where "a Yankee military force" is assembling.
Fifty-nine journalists have been killed around the world so far this year, in an alarming rise from 2008 that has become a "bloodbath" of the media, a watchdog said Thursday.
