Plan Colombia

U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism

AvJohn Lindsay-Poland

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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For more than fifty years, the United States supported the Colombian military in a war that cost over 200,000 lives. During a single period of heightened U.S. assistance known as Plan Colombia, the Colombian military killed more than 5,000 civilians. In Plan Colombia John Lindsay-Poland narrates a 2005 massacre in the San JosÉ de ApartadÓ Peace Community and the subsequent investigation, official cover-up, and response from the international community. He examines how the multibillion-dollar U.S. military aid and official indifference contributed to the Colombian military's atrocities. Drawing on his human rights activism and interviews with military officers, community members, and human rights defenders, Lindsay-Poland describes grassroots initiatives in Colombia and the United States that resisted militarized policy and created alternatives to war. Although they had few resources, these initiatives offered models for constructing just and peaceful relationships between the United States and other nations. Yet, despite the civilian death toll and documented atrocities, Washington, DC, considered Plan Colombia's counterinsurgency campaign to be so successful that it became the dominant blueprint for U.S. military intervention around the world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-09
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9781478001539

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John Lindsay-Poland is Healing Justice Associate at the American Friends Service Committee and author of Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama, also published by Duke University Press.

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"Most studies of human rights violations approach cases at the national level and offer little insight into how U.S. military aid is territorialized. . . . By tracking the career trajectories of Colombian officers, Lindsay-Poland directs our attention to a shared war, and to a common counterinsurgent expertise, developed between the United States and Colombia over the course of 50 years." - Emma Shaw Crane (NACLA)

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List of Abbreviations ixAcknowledgments xiiiPrologue 1Introduction: Challenging American Exceptionalism 71. The Longest War: U.S. Military Influence in Colombia, 1952-1995 262. War on the Frontier 383. How Plan Colombia Was Sold 514. "We Want a Witness": Accompaniment in San JosÉ de ApartadÓ 645. Mapping Our War: Where Did U.S. Aid in Colombia Go? 836. Killing the Future 1017. Projects of Life 1238. Massacre Aftermath and Cover-Up 1409. Widespread and Systematic: The Dynamics of "Legalized" Murder 15110. The United States Effect: Impacts on "False Positive" Killings 16411. Investigation of the Massacre 18312. An Encounter with Power 19813. Judicial Warfare 21014. U.S. Policy Lessons 220Conclusion: The Arc of Impunity 226Notes 233Bibliography 273Index 281