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Plan Colombia : U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism /

For more than fifty years, the United States supported the Colombian military in a war that cost over 200,000 lives. During a single period of heightened U.S. assistance known as Plan Colombia, the Colombian military killed more than 5,000 civilians. In Plan Colombia John Lindsay-Poland narrates a 2...

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Autor principal: Lindsay-Poland, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: challenging American exceptionalism
  • The longest war: U.S. military influence in Colombia, 1952-1995
  • War on the frontier
  • How Plan Colombia was sold
  • "We want a witness" : accompaniment in San Jose de Apartadó
  • Mapping our war: where did U.S. aid in Colombia go?
  • Killing the future
  • Projects of life
  • Massacre aftermath and cover-up
  • Widespread and systematic: the dynamics of "legalized" murder
  • The United States effect: impacts on "false positive" killings
  • Investigation of the massacre
  • An encounter with power
  • Judicial warfare
  • U.S. policy lessons
  • Conclusion: the arc of impunity.