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In December 1, 1992, as outgoing Bush Administration officials packed their bags, the Costa Rican Ambassador to the United States, Gonzalo Facio, was summoned to the State Department to discuss [...]

As Congress attempts to clean its legislative house before the August recess, it has the opportunity to eliminate one of the premier cold war programs of the Reagan/Bush era: the [...]

* Peter Kornbluh writes: Chileans and the international human rights community marked a historic day of justice on January 28 when Gen. Manuel Contreras, the former head of the Chilean [...]

Santiago The marbled corridors of the venerable Tribunal of Justice in downtown Santiago, deadly silent during the years of the military dictatorship, are now filled with the bustle of lawyers, [...]

On September 14, 1970, a deputy to then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger wrote him a memo, classified SECRET/ SENSITIVE, arguing against covert operations to block the duly elected Chilean socialist [...]

'I am here in the hope that we can do business,' Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura told a Cuban audience after cutting the ceremonial ribbon with Fidel Castro to open the [...]

'I have concluded that we should attempt to achieve normalization of our relations with Cuba,' Jimmy Carter proclaimed in a secret Presidential Directive shortly after taking office in 1977. With [...]

During the week of December 17, US freighters are expected to dock in Cuban ports and begin offloading a historic shipment of foodstuffs. In a deal worth up to $30 [...]

The current President George Bush, whose very name evokes a dark era many would prefer to forget, seems determined to resurrect the ghosts of America's scandal-ridden past. A number of [...]

'Actions approved by the U.S. government aggravated political polarization and affected Chile's long tradition of democratic elections and respect for constitutional order and the rule of law,' reads a White [...]

'Covert action,' the late Senator Frank Church concluded in 1976 after his long inquiry into CIA operations in Chile and elsewhere, is a 'semantic disguise for murder, coercion, blackmail, bribery, [...]

In mid-October 1996, two months after the publication of Gary Webb's series 'Dark Alliance' in the San Jose Mercury News, an extraordinary town meeting took place in Compton, California, one [...]

On September 28, 1973, seventeen days after the bloody coup that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power, two Chilean military officers approached the US Embassy with a request: The new [...]

The Selling of The F.D.N. On November 25, the day Attorney General EdwinMeese 3d made known the Iran/contra arms connection, civilian members of the United Nicaraguan Opposition (UNO), the contras' [...]

On February 16, Ronald Reagan launched a massive propaganda offensive in behalf of U.S. aid to the rebels fighting to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. Reporters who were camped outside the [...]

Thirty-seven years after the U.S.-organized invasion at the Bay of Pigs, the Pentagon now officially confirms that Cuba poses no threat to U.S. security interests--this from a still-sequestered Defense Department [...]

As U.S.-Cuban relations plunge, once again, into the abyss of election-year politics, the opportunities for ending the cold war in the Caribbean have disappeared as suddenly and violently as the [...]

In December 1994, less than two months after the U.S. Congress banned all official assistance to the Nicaraguan contras, Lieut. Col. Oliver North dispatched the head of the Nicaraguan Democratic [...]

The Dictator and the Quest for Justice London It was just before midnight when two detectives from Scotland Yard's organized crime division slipped into the quiet halls of the upscale [...]

'The simplest local tools are often much the most efficient means of assassination,' counsels a C.I.A. study on the subject written in the fifties. 'A hammer, axe, wrench, screw driver, [...]

In the aftermath of the Clinton Administration's decision to repatriate Cuban raft people, a major political drama is unfolding in Washington: a serious rift between White House and the previously [...]

Down the Drain Last month, with minimal debate and almost no press coverage, Congress authorized $3.4 million in what House Speaker Jim Wright called 'humanitarian' aid to help the contras [...]