Bill Weinberg : Mexico
Colombia paramilitary leaders extradited to face stiff US drug charges will dodge accountability for their atrocities. Rights watchers say their victims now have little chance for justice.
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?
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.
Bush needs to acknowledge how little Colombia and Guatemala are doing to combat cocaine trafficking to the United States.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Frank Smyth : Arms Spending & Proliferation
Two US officers are caught delivering weapons to a Colombian paramilitary group.
Bill Weinberg : Drug Policy/Drug War
The US troop presence is doubled--as Colombia's civil movement says no to more war.
Paramilitary forces are the enforcers of the promised favorable investment climate.
The State Department, discounting its own human rights reports, continues to assert that the Colombian government is complying with all conditions necessary for aid.
Colombia policy is one of the most controversial aspects of the foreign aid bill in the House.
Mark Schapiro : White-Collar Crime
Uncovering the Industry's Multibillion-Dollar Global Smuggling Network.
US employers like Coca-Cola are implicated in Colombia's brutality.
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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