How To Kill Subversives and Get Away With It

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Frank Smyth
Could US complicity in war crimes in countries like Colombia offer a playbook for domestic repression? After the Cold War, U.S. advisors helped the Colombian military incorporate illegal paramilitaries to assassinate trade unionists, journalists and others.
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The Gospel of Gun Rights in the Age of Trump

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Frank Smyth
Not unlike the way authoritarians across the world have rewritten history to advance their agenda, pro-gun ideologues and leaders in the U.S. have invented their own gospel of gun rights.
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Mysterious Influx of Soviet & Chinese Arms for Salvador Rebels

The Sacramento Bee
June 4, 1989 / Frank Smyth
Title: A Mysterious Influx of Soviet and Chinese Arms for Salvador Rebels Source: The Sacramento Bee Date: June 4, 1989 Morazan, El Salvador — Seventeen-year-old Odilia playfully pushed her tongue through her teeth as she recalled how she shot seven Salvadoran army soldiers in an ambush a few days before. Odilia’s under five feet tall, […]
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Salvadoran Abyss

The Nation
January 15, 1990 / Frank Smyth
Escalon, San Salvador — “They should either kill them all or negotiate,” the well-to-do Salvadoran businessman said in nearly flawless English. Leftist guerrillas had taken over this usually quiet suburban neighborhood, and some had even passed the night in his home. “This thing has to end,” he added. “We need a solution.” The November military […]
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