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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Major command shake-up likely in Salvadoran army

The Miami Herald
June 28, 1988 / Frank Smyth
The changes will mark the ascent to power of the Salvadoran military's academy class of 1966, the so-called tandona, or 'big class.'
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Caught With Their Pants Down: Why U.S. Policy – and Intelligence – Failed in Salvador

The Village Voice
December 5, 1989 / Frank Smyth
Original 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 […]
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