'Para-politics' Goes Bananas
Michael Evans
Chiquita Brands has been fined $25 million by the US Justice Department for funding a terrorist paramilitary group, but isn't that just the cost of doing business with Colombia?
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Bush Amigo's Para Pals
Liliana Segura : US Foreign Policy
Revelations of Colombian government collusion with paramilitary thugs ought to put the damper on President Bush's Latin American tour.
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Bush's Brush with Latin America's Drug Lords
Frank Smyth : George W. Bush
Bush needs to acknowledge how little Colombia and Guatemala are doing to combat cocaine trafficking to the United States.
2006
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Colombia's Deep Divide
Colombia's subtly demagogic President Uribe gained the advantage in the upcoming election by leveraging the strength of anti-left paramilitaries, drug trafficking and a culture of violence.
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The Case Against Coke
Michael Blanding : Labor Organizing & Activism
A global, grassroots campaign against Coca-Cola is using product bans and lawsuits to shed light on the corporate giant's exploitation and brutality in Colombia, India and elsewhere.
2005
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The Threat of Hope in Latin America
Across Latin America indigenous movements redrawing the continent's political map, demanding not just "rights" but a reinvention of the state along deeply democratic lines.
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Changing the Electoral Game in Colombia
Liliana Segura : US Foreign Policy
In a landmark ruling, Colombia's Constitutional Court has allowed President Alvaro Uribe to seek a second term. That's good news for the Bush Administration, which considers Uribe a staunch ally. But others in Colombia are not so sure.
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US Arms for Terrorists?
Frank Smyth : Arms Spending & Proliferation
Two US officers are caught delivering weapons to a Colombian paramilitary group.
2004
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Washington Votes for War in Colombia
Bill Weinberg : Drug Policy/Drug War
The US troop presence is doubled--as Colombia's civil movement says no to more war.
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Terror in Colombia
Paramilitary forces are the enforcers of the promised favorable investment climate.
2003
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Colombia and Human Rights
The State Department, discounting its own human rights reports, continues to assert that the Colombian government is complying with all conditions necessary for aid.
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Failed 'Plan' in Colombia
Colombia policy is one of the most controversial aspects of the foreign aid bill in the House.
2002
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Big Tobacco
Mark Schapiro : White-Collar Crime
Uncovering the Industry's Multibillion-Dollar Global Smuggling Network.
2001
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It's the Real Thing: Murder
US employers like Coca-Cola are implicated in Colombia's brutality.
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Plan Colombia
Marc Cooper : Drug Policy/Drug War
Once again, US power is being projected abroad at a punishing social cost to a country we're "assisting."
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