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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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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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.