1. “We’re Witnessing a Reactivation of the Death Squads of the ‘80s”: An Interview with Bertha Oliva of COFADEH
(Matching tags: human rights, military, Honduras, police, IACHR)

... with military officers exercising control over many of the country’s institutions.  The military is now in the streets playing a security role – often substituting for the work of the police forces of ...

2. Killings Continue in Bajo Aguán as New Report Documents Abuses by U.S.-Trained Honduran Special Forces Unit
(Matching tags: amnesty international, military, Honduras, Facusse)

... military personnel of being involved in attacks on their members.  A new report authored by Annie Bird of Rights Action adds significant weight to these allegations.  It documents 34 cases of abuses directly ...

3. Grandin on “the Latin American Exception”
(Matching tags: military, latin america)

... Exception.”  Starting in the 1950s, the U.S. worked closely with the region’s military dictatorships to render their brutal security forces and intelligence services more efficient in clamping down on ...

4. Does Guatemala Include “Extrajudicial Executions” in its Calculation of National Murder Rates?
(Matching tags: military, Guatemala)

... mayor of the town of Jutiapa had just been shot down, dying almost immediately of sixteen bullet wounds.  In the 1980s, the “scorched-earth” campaign of the Guatemalan military tortured, slaughtered ...

5. Blacklisted Contractor Continues Receiving Government Money Through Haiti Contracts
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, us military, relief efforts, oversight, military)

... our nation provides humanitarian assistance, but the military.  Just after the earthquake, the U.S. had over 20,000 troops in Haiti. Of the $1.1 billion in humanitarian funding from the U.S. in 2010, nearly ...

6. The Military Spending Fairy
(Matching tags: jobs, unemployment, defense, spending, job creation, military)

Faced with the prospect of cuts to the Defense Department's budget, the defense industry is pushing the story of the military spending fairy on members of Congress. They are telling them that these cuts ...