In the past week the Bush administration has unearthed a "national security" justification for passage of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement that can’t be allowed to stand. "As your national security adviser
With President Uribe’s decision to cut off a negotiations process led by Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, hope that the FARC guerrillas will release long-held kidnapping victims has faded once again. Meanwhile, relations between
If reducing drug use at home and fighting terrorists abroad are vital U.S. interests in the Americas, our current policy in Colombia is failing. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Colombia still
c o m m e n t a r y Extending the War on Terrorism to Colombia A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come by Adam Isacson | February 8, 2002 This
p o l i c y b r i e f Militarizing Latin America Policy by Adam Isacson | May 2001 This brief was commissioned and originally distributed by the IRC’s Foreign