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Salon.com
July 5, 2000
Ana Arana |
Fighting drugs with choppers and poison Even advocates of U.S. military aid think the anti-narcotics package will only unravel the peace with Colombian guerrillas.   |
Salon.com
December 5, 2000
Ana Arana |
Ground zero in the Colombian drug war The U.S.-backed Plan Colombia will soon touch down in a region battered by civil war and central to the cocaine trade -- will it ignite the conflict? |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 20, 2010
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround In their new book, The Big Ditch, Harvard Business School professor Noel Maurer and economic historian Carlos Yu discuss the complicated history of the Panama Canal. |
Salon.com
August 28, 2000
Ana Arana |
War on drugs 1, human rights 0 On the eve of President Clinton's trip to Colombia, critics say Washington cares more about its war on drugs than human rights. |
Salon.com
September 1, 2000
Arianna Huffington |
An eerie campaign silence Bush and Gore should tell us where they stand on the ugly $1.3 billion drug war offensive in Colombia that the next president will have to face. |
Salon.com
April 24, 2001
Jeff Stein |
Treachery over the Andes The downing of a U.S. missionary plane over Peru raises questions about whether we can trust our drug-war allies -- and the families of soldiers who died in Colombia say the answer is no... |
Reason
January 2002
Glenn Garvin |
A Splendid Little Drug War Tragedy, farce, and fake brass cojones south of the border: two new books illuminate the growing ugliness of a War on Drugs that is rapidly losing its metaphorical status... |
Reason
June 2005
Toby Muse |
Legalize Now! War-weary Colombia--and its Conservative Party--consider ending the drug war. |
Outside
September 2004
Ben Ryder Howe |
An Impossible Place To Be Panama's mythic Darien Gap--a 10,000-square-mile swath of jungle on the border of Central and South America--has swallowed explorers for centuries. Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land. |
Salon.com
July 5, 2000
Jeff Stein |
The unquiet death of Jennifer Odom The Pentagon says the Army pilot's crash in Colombia last July was a "mishap," but her family believes she was shot down -- the first of many soldiers likely to die in our undeclared war. |
Mother Jones
December 2000
Kirk Semple |
Trouble in Coca County For community workers on Colombia's cocaine frontier, the war on drugs is getting personal... |
Salon.com
April 24, 2001
Fiona Morgan |
Deadly mistake Why did the Peruvian military shoot down a plane full of innocent people -- and why was the CIA involved? |
Salon.com
January 11, 2001
Michael Easterbrook |
What are we fighting for? Colombia's civil war puts children on the front lines... |
Salon.com
November 7, 2000
Mark Schapiro |
The man without a country How Vladimiro Montesinos' old nemesis helped force the former Peruvian spy chief out of comfortable exile in Panama -- and could compel him to face trial at home... |
Salon.com
July 16, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
Good morning, Colombia Turning loose a force of heavily armed mercenaries in the middle of a bloody civil war in the name of America's war on drugs is more than a misguided policy -- it's utter insanity... |
National Defense
May 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Mali Crisis Offers Lessons for Special Operations Command A strategic shift to the Asia-Pacific, along with a hope for gradual disengagement in the Middle East and South Asia, will usher in a new era for Special Operations Command as it returns to its roots, which is carrying out foreign internal defense missions. |
Salon.com
July 5, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
The corruption of Col. James Hiett When the commander of U.S. anti-drug efforts in Colombia got involved in drug running, Congress should have rethought its massive military aid bill -- but it didn't. |
Reason
June 2003
Michael McMenamin |
Teddy Roosevelt's Hidden Legacy How an "imperialist" president's record makes the case for military restraint |
IDB America
November 2002
Roger Hamilton |
Development by dialogue Panama's Darien Province is showing how people can control and shape development even in the most difficult circumstances. |
Smithsonian
March 2004
Bob Cullen |
A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Panama Rises The Central American nation, now celebrating its centennial, has come into its own since the United States ceded control of its vital waterway. |
Salon.com
May 24, 2001
Laura Miller |
Uncle Sam, manhunter Two new books detail America's deadly pursuit of Manuel Noriega and Pablo Escobar... |
Salon.com
June 30, 2000
Arianna Huffington |
Chopper wars Coupon-cutting cronies in the Senate care more about helicopters for Colombia than the drug problem at home. |
Salon.com
May 24, 2001
Douglas Cruickshank |
Death of a drug lord In "Killing Pablo," Mark Bowden details the 16-month game of cat and mouse that finally took down Medellin cartel founder Pablo Escobar -- with the help of the U.S. government... |
BusinessWeek
May 28, 2007
Roben Farzad |
Extreme Investing: Inside Colombia An improbable journey from crime capital to investment hot spot. Can this boom in Colombia last? |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 19, 2006
Julia Hanna |
Political Turmoil and Mexico's Economy Professor Noel Maurer's historical research into Mexico and other countries with unstable governments shows that their economies perform better than might be expected. |
BusinessWeek
June 11, 2007 |
Hail Colombia An outpouring of reactions - from gratitude to revulsion - to a recent story about Colombian lawmakers and businessmen had just been arrested for their alleged links to paramilitaries who murdered hundreds of citizens. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 1, 2013 |
Country Report: Colombia Colombia is focusing on bolstering the commercial sector. While this is good news for the pharmaceutical industry, there is still a strong debate about how healthcare in Colombia can be improved. |
National Defense
April 2013
Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
10 Reasons to Reform U.S. National Security Policy The U.S. security enterprise must be reformed to bring foreign policy in line with national values, and to enable improved fiscal health at the federal level. |
BusinessWeek
April 14, 2011
Mark Drajem |
The Benefits of a U.S.-Colombia Free-Trade Deal A trade pact could boost U.S. exports by $1.1 billion, with companies such as GE, Wal-Mart, and Citigroup as big beneficiaries |
BusinessWeek
May 28, 2007
Roben Farzad |
Alvaro Uribe: The Change Agent Colombia's no-nonsense President is winning over investors. But critics charge that he's linked to paramilitaries, and that threatens a new trade agreement with Washington. |
The Motley Fool
December 9, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Embraer's Defense Deal Investors shouldn't expect a ton of major military deals for this Brazilian plane maker. Investors, take note. |
National Real Estate Investor
March 1, 2007
John Egan |
A New Panama Invasion Panamanian real estate developer Jose Bern believes that his country has been a well-kept economic secret for years. But in dramatic fashion, global real estate investors such as New York developer Donald Trump are uncovering the secret. |
IDB America
January 2006
Charo Quesada |
Using the Classroom to Fight for Peace A new study explores how educational programs can help to heal societies battered by conflict: El Salvador and educational reform... Vietnam and children... Peru and human rights... Colombia: laboratories for peace... etc. |
IDB America
April 2003 |
IDB supports sustainable growth and fiscal management in Panama The IDB and Panamanian government officials signed two loans totaling $25.2 million to support a program for the sustainable development of the country's Bocas del Toro region and a program to strengthen the fiscal management of the public sector. |
IDB America
February 2005 |
IDB Supports Community Investments in Panama Canal Watershed The $35 million project will promote gradual development in the 5,528-square-kilometer watershed, based on the sustainable use of its natural resources and with a high degree of participation of the local communities and agencies involved in various sectors. |
