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Murdering with Impunity: The Rise in Terror Tactics Against News Reporters
/in Harvard International Review/by Frank SmythMore journalists were killed last year than ever before. No doubt the world has become a more dangerous, but not necessarily in ways that people might expect.
Colombia’s Blowback
/in Transnational Institute/by Frank SmythEDITOR’S NOTE: The article below by investigative journalist Frank Smyth was published last Fall by the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam) and Accion Andina (Cochabomba, Bolivia) as a chapter titled, “La Mano Blanca en Colombia,” in the book, Crimen Uniformado [Crime in Uniform]: entre la corrupcion y la impunidad (1997). It appears in Antifa Info-Bulletin with the […]
Arms and Mandela: After the Honeymoon, He Faces the Deadly Dilemmas of South Africa’s Arms Industry
/in The Washington Post/by Frank SmythThe little-noticed role of South African-made arms in the catastrophe of Rwanda presents Nelson Mandela with…
Release the Jesuit Tapes
/in The Village Voice/by Thomas Long & Frank SmythAmerican officials in both San Salvador and Washington claim that they have cooperated “intensely” with the investigation into the murder of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter last November. Yet even though State Department officials finally yielded to pressure from Congress to turn over…
Caught With Their Pants Down: Why U.S. Policy – and Intelligence – Failed in Salvador
/in The Village Voice/by Frank SmythOriginal story can be found here. “I DON’T THINK THEY HAVE the capability,” said a U.S. Embassy official as he sipped coffee one Saturday morning in the tropical setting of his patio. I asked him if he thought rumors of an upcoming rebel offensive were true. “We’ve heard some things,” he said. “But ESAF’s [El […]
Waiting for Tet: Salvadoran Rebels Have a Plan for Sunday’s Elections
/in The Village Voice/by Frank SmythSAN SALVADOR – THE BRIGHT LIGHTS of San Salvador cut the cool night air. Large spotlights beamed from military bases along the perimeter. Closer to the center, more lights glowed atop the heavily fortified walls of the U.S. embassy. Dressed in black and armed with an M-16, one of my guerilla guides stopped along the […]