Peter Kornbluh

Peter Kornbluh directs the Cuba Documentation Project and the Chile Documentation Project at the National Security Archive (www.nsarchive.org), a public interest research center located at George Washington University (Washington, DC). He is co-author of The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History (New Press), author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (New Press) and co-author of a forthcoming book on the untold history of dialogue between the United States and Cuba.

Articles

Jimmy Carter: Lift Trade Embargo Against Cuba (Foreign Policy, World)

The former US president calls for open travel for US citizens and freedom for Alan Gross and the Cuban Five.

Peter Kornbluh

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The Posada Trial Takes a Historic Turn (US Intelligence, World)

By prosecuting Luis Posada on charges related to his acts of terrorism, the United States is repudiating a dark past that its own Cold War officials and covert operatives set in motion.

Peter Kornbluh

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Former CIA Asset Luis Posada Goes to Trial (Foreign Policy, Covert Ops, World)

The Cuban exile has a long record of terror, but his trial, starting today, is on lesser charges.

Peter Kornbluh

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Chile's Turning Point (Regions and Countries)

A victory by Sebastian Pinera in the Chilean marks a major turning point in the post-Pinochet transition, and a return to power of some of the hardcore rightists who collaborated with the military regime.

Peter Kornbluh and Katherine Hite

Fujimori: Guilty as Charged (Regions and Countries, Society)

Peru's disgraced former president becomes the first democratically elected head of state to be extradited, tried and convicted of human rights crimes.

Peter Kornbluh

The Day After Fidel (Foreign Policy, World Leaders, Regions and Countries)

Most authoritarians leave office in a coup or a coffin. Fidel Castro is leaving on his own terms.

Peter Kornbluh

Terror and the Counterterrorists (Foreign Policy, Regions and Countries)

Five Cuban counterterrorism experts are being held indefinitely in
American prisons while the "bin Laden of Latin America" is let free.

Peter Kornbluh

The Changing of the Guard (Foreign Policy, Regions and Countries)

A panel of experts explores the view from Havana.

Peter Kornbluh, Alberto Coll, Saul Landau, William LeoGrande, Philip Peters and Ramón Sánchez-Parodi

Test on Terrorism (Regions and Countries)

The godfather of vicious anti-Castro violence, Luis Posada Carriles
will soon be released from US custody. Is that any way to treat a
terrorist?