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’ […]
“‘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 […]
Over the past few years we have faced two major challenges in conceiving of a new foreign policy in Latin America. The first is […]
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. […]
By Michael Flynn July 3, 2002 For years, the public has scrutinized the successes, failures, and excesses of border policing strategies devised by the […]
