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...author of the Andean strategy during Bush 1 administration. The strategy revolved around giving a lot of aid and training, including military training, to forces in Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. The Peru aspect of the strategy was controversial then because of Peru?s human-rights record. It?s still controversial because of Peru?s human rights record, and now even more so because of the recent shoot-down of the American missionary plane. I expect Walters will be grilled about this strategy, and asked about its long-term effectiveness when he comes up for confirmation...
...side of the game or the other--except those unfortunate enough to be caught in the middle. Charts of coca production and the violence that goes along with it--kidnappings, massacres, executions--look like a NASDAQ chart from 1998. The jungles of Colombia and Peru and Bolivia are dotted with the paraphernalia buttressing a shadowy and bloody war: American radar systems, air bases and special-operations training units...
...that in the year of the now famous Hayes-Tilden mess--of which no one took note until two months ago--Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, Brahms finished composing Symphony No. 1 (op. 68), Renoir painted Le Moulin de la Galette. And Hilarion Daza was made President of Bolivia. And a juvenile reformatory was founded in Elmira...
Debt relief is a moral imperative. The U.S. should not stand for the proposition that poor countries where as much as half the adult population will contract AIDS must pay back every last dollar of principal and interest. That would be wrong. Last year I visited health clinics in Bolivia where children were getting vaccinations for the first time because money had been freed up by debt relief. The only thing holding back further relief for places like Bolivia is the U.S. Congress. And remember, debt relief is not charity. It is what the toughest financial institutions do when they...
Things become truly troubling when human beings facing the same difficult circumstances start making equally brutal choices. Anthropologists report that during a three-year period of social upheaval in Bolivia in the 1930s, nearly every mother in an Ayoreo Indian village committed infanticide at least once. In India and China, selective infanticide of baby girls is still commonly, if quietly, practiced. And while there may be less of a history of such killing in the U.S., periodic cases of high-schoolers secretly giving birth and then murdering their infant are proof that such practices know no cultural boundaries...