U.S. security policy in Mexico and Central America, focused on militarized counter-narcotics efforts known as the war on drugs, has had severely negative effects on the region. This report analyzes the effects in four areas – militarization, drug policy, violence against women and forced migration—and examines the impact of this security policy on three countries: Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.
It’s got millions of rightwing citizens calling Congress, sponsoring legislation, and writing manifestos in defense of U.S. sovereignty. It comes up in presidential candidates’ public appearances, has made it into primetime debates, and one presidential…
“‘The inevitable’ has a name today: fragmented globalization…the end of history, the omnipresence and omnipotence of money, the substitution of politics for police, the present as the only possible future, rationalization of social inequality, justification of super-exploitation…
Over the past few years we have faced two major challenges in conceiving of a new foreign policy in Latin America. The first is the relative lack of attention to the region, by both the…
By Tom Barry, Salih Booker, Laura Carlsen, Marie Dennis, and John Gershman What in the world are we doing? Seldom, if ever, has U.S. foreign policy been as confusing or as divisive as it is…
By Michael Flynn July 3, 2002 For years, the public has scrutinized the successes, failures, and excesses of border policing strategies devised by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the Border Patrol, primarily on…
