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Plan Colombia : U.S. ally atrocities and community activism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lindsay-Poland, John (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Comunidad de Paz (San José de Apartadó, Colombia)
Military assistance, American > Colombia.
Atrocities > Colombia.
Economic assistance, American > Colombia.
Drug control > Colombia.
Peace movements > Colombia.
Colombia > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Colombia.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 José 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.