How To Kill Subversives and Get Away With It

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Frank Smyth
Could US complicity in war crimes in countries like Colombia offer a playbook for domestic repression? After the Cold War, U.S. advisors helped the Colombian military incorporate illegal paramilitaries to assassinate trade unionists, journalists and others.

The Gospel of Gun Rights in the Age of Trump

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Frank Smyth
Not unlike the way authoritarians across the world have rewritten history to advance their agenda, pro-gun ideologues and leaders in the U.S. have invented their own gospel of gun rights.

El congresista y la hija del dictador

September 1, 2006 / Frank Smyth
Jerry Weller buscaba reelección en el congreso, cuando anunció que estaba comprometido con Zury Ríos Sosa, una diputada del congreso guatemalteco e hija del conocido dictador, (general) Efraín Ríos Montt.

Many Tutsis Are Strangers in Their Own Homeland

August 30, 1996 / Frank Smyth
Most of Rwanda's new Tutsis hardly know the country they call their homeland. After Hutus first seized power in Rwanda during the early 1960s amid the region's transition to independence (in Burundi, the Tutsis never lost power), more than 150,000 Tutsis fled to Uganda and other countries. There they eventually grew to more than 1 million.

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