John Lindsay-Poland

Plan Colombia

U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism

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Produktbeschreibung

John Lindsay-Poland is Healing Justice Associate at the American Friends Service Committee and author of Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama, also published by Duke University Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781478001188
• ISBN-10: 1478001186
• Artikelnr.: 50450566

Autorenporträt

John Lindsay-Poland

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Prologue  1
Introduction: Challenging American Exceptionalism  7
1. The Longest War: U.S. Military Influence in Colombia, 1952-1995  26
2. War on the Frontier  38
3. How Plan Colombia Was Sold  51
4. "We Want a Witness": Accompaniment in San José de Apartadó 64
5. Mapping Our War: Where Did U.S. Aid in Colombia Go?  83
6. Killing the Future  101
7. Projects of Life  123
8. Massacre Aftermath and Cover-Up  140
9. Widespread and Systematic: The Dynamics of "Legalized" Murder  151
10. The United States Effect: Impacts on "False Positive" Killings  164
11. Investigation of the Massacre  183
12. An Encounter with Power  198
13. Judicial Warfare  210
14. U.S. Policy Lessons  220
Conclusion: The Arc of Impunity  226
Notes 233
Bibliography  273
Index  281