Colombia Briefing: Bad Press
This story became of the evidence that led the State Department to designate Carlos Castano and his paramilitary group known by its acronym in Spanish as the AUC, as a terrorist organization over a year later, in 2002.
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No Passage
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythThe lesson of El Salvador was that the guerrillas could not be wiped out, and that in the end the United States needed to pressure America’s own allies in the Salvadoran military to reach a peace settlement.
Africa’s Inexplicable Horn
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythLike elsewhere in Africa, Western efforts on the African Horn come too little too late. Even if the U.N. security council were to now impose an arms embargo, it could only help lessen the intensity of the next round of fighting
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.
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.
Africa’s Horn War
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythSecessionist struggles stoke nationalist passions, but they do not necessarily correspond to ethnic groups. While ethnicity burns the fire in the Balkans, ethnic Tigrinyans lead both Ethiopia and Eritrea into battle in the war on the African Horn.
Battle Horn: So Much for Africa’s “New Leaders.”
/in The New Republic/by Frank SmythThe war on Africa’s Horn may be the most dramatic and bloodiest chapter in the rapid disintegration of an alliance among a group of African leaders–commonly referred to as the “new leaders”–that once held much promise. In 1996, Isaias and Meles, along with Uganda’s…