Today's breaking news is that Edward Snowden - a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) who released internal NSA documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post - has fled to Latin America. He's been joined by Wikileaks employee Sarah...
After 20 Years, Still Hiding the Truth About US Collusion in Salvadoran Atrocities
Yesterday, the Boston Globe reported on a renewed legal case against Inocente Orlando Montano, "a former Salvadoran government minister accused of colluding in the infamous killing of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador two decades ago," who has apparently been living a...
Pushing the Military in Latin America
The Posse Comitatus Act is one of the most important measures in this country imposing restrictions on the federal government and Executive power. It essentially prohibits the federal government from using the military for law enforcement, which, despite the problems...
Latin America Beware: The Imperial Pretext Is Changing
During the Cold War, the pretext for reigning terror down upon the masses in Central and South America through U.S. imperialism was the creeping communist threat. This was used as a justification for our 1954 overthrow of Guatemala's democratically elected...