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Record Imprisonments, Impunity for Murders: Can Press Freedom Watchdogs Even Keep Up?

In recent years, CPJ has returned to using less precise language like “killings” to refer to murders whenever discussing them in the aggregate. It’s the kind of euphemism preferred by despots like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

Guatemala’s Cycles of Crime

“With names like the “Brotherhood” (Cofradía) and the “Operators,” the intelligence cliques “developed their own vertical leader-subordinate network of recognition, relationships, and loyalties.”

Justify My War: Why Clinton Eyes Haiti’s Drug Trade and Ignores Guatemala’s

While Bill Clinton’s White House invokes Haitian drug trafficking as a key rationale for invasion, it is continuing the Bush administration policy of virtually ignoring…