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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El narco-Estado intocable: Militares guatemaltecos desafían a la DEA

The Texas Observer
November 18, 2005 / Frank Smyth
Altos jefes de inteligencia están entre los fundadores de un club oscuro que se autonombra "la cofradía," y que fue la "ingeniería" de tácticos que incluyeron "actos de genocidio" de comunidades mayas.
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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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