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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Even Court-Approved Extraditions Have a Troubled, Bloody History in Guatemala

InsightCrime.org
July 19, 2012 / Frank Smyth
The first time the U.S. tried to extradite a Guatemalan military officer for drug trafficking, it took the assassination of the nation's chief justice, in 1994, to stop it. No officers and few civilians have been extradited since.
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U.S. adviser comes under fire in El Salvador

Fort Worth Star-Telegram
February 22, 1989 / Frank Smyth
Original article can be found here. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – A U.S. military advisor at a Salvadoran army base came under fire yesterday in an early morning rebel attack that killed three Salvadoran soldiers, but he apparently managed to escape unharmed. It is at least the fourth reported attack involving U.S. advisers since they […]
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