Guatemala’s Narco-military
No country so small has ever moved so much cocaine north. Earlier in this decade, about 50 to 75 metric tons of cocaine passed through Guatemala each year, according to the State Department.
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Cold War Bias in Colombia?
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythCarlos Castano is not a name that comes up much in the debate over whether to escalate U.S. drug-war aid to Colombia. But policy-makers and politicians alike in America should be mindful of the alliances that he and other rightist paramilitaries…
Did Kosovo Beget East Timor?
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythNever have so many different forces been deployed in the same place. Hungarian soldiers guard “Film City,” the former movie studio that is now a hilltop command post for NATO-led international forces in Kosovo’s capital of Pristina.
Growing Pains in the Horn of Africa?
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythMany developing nations have borders that were first established by colonial powers. But few embrace their colonial heritage as closely as does Eritrea, a tiny nation of 3.6 million people that amicably seceded from larger Ethiopia in 1993.
A Brave Guatemalan Judge Challenges Corrupt Brass Hats
/in The Wall Street Journal/by Frank SmythSomething new and promising happened in Guatemala last month when Judge Marco Tulio Molina Lara sentenced ex-Army Lt. Col. Carlos Ochoa Ruiz to 14 years in prison for trafficking in cocaine.
Most Wanted
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythThe less-than-modest American diplomat who brokered the 1995 Dayton accords to end the war in Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke, did more than anyone else to persuade the Clinton administration that Yugoslavia’s president, Slobodan Milosevic…
Overstretched?
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythBaghdad waited only three days last week before rejecting a British/Dutch proposal to finally lift economic sanctions against Iraq in exchange for new inspections into its ability to produce weapons of mass destruction.