Drug War Capitalism (48 page)

57 Redaccion, “Honduras: La lista de policías vinculados a delitos es escalofriante,”
El Heraldo,
February 5, 2014, http://www.elheraldo.hn/content/view/full/217348.

58 Meyer, “Honduras-US Relations,” 11.

59 G. Ramsey, “Cable: Honduran Military Supplied Weaponry to Cartels,”
InSight Crime
, April 25, 2011, http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/cable-honduran-military-supplied-weaponry-to-cartels.

60 Sarah England, “‘Worse than the War’: Experiences and Discourses of Violence in Postwar Central America,”
Latin American Perspectives
39, no. 6 (November 2012), 246–247.

61 K. McSweeny and Z. Pearson, “Prying Native People from Native Lands: Narco Business in Honduras,”
NACLA
, February 4, 2014, http://nacla.org/news/2014/2/4/prying-native-people-native-lands-narco-business-honduras.

62 Annie Bird and Alex Main, “Collateral Damage of a Drug War,”
Center for Economic and Policy Research
, August 2012, http://www.cepr.net/documents
/publications/honduras-2012-08.pdf.

63 “The Drug War: Policing and US Militarism at Home and Abroad,” event, February 20, 2014.

64 CRLN, “229 Politically Related Murders in Honduras Under President ‘Pepe’ Lobo,”
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America
, November 20, 2013, retrieved March 11, 2014, http://www.crln.org/story
/229_Murders_Honduras.

65 Annie Bird, “Human Rights Violations Attributed to Military Forces in the Bajo Aguan Valley in Honduras,” February 20, 2013, http://rightsaction.org/sites/default/files/Rpt_130220_Aguan_Final.pdf, 4.

66 UN Working Group on Mercenaries, “Report of the Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries as a Means of Violating Human Rights and Impeding the Exercise of the Right of Peoples to Self-determination on its Mission to Honduras,”
UNHR
, 18–22 February 2013, 13.

67 Michael R. Fowler, “Honduras,” in
Bribes, Bullets and Intimidation
, eds. Julie Bunck and Michael Fowler (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2012), 265.

68 Ibid., 273.

69 Ibid., 307.

CONCLUSION: THINKING THROUGH PEACE IN WARTIME

1 Immanuel Wallerstein,
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004), ix.

2
R. Gomis, M. Romillo, and I. Rodríguez, “Reflexiones sobre la politica del terror: El caso de Guatemala,”
Cuadernos de Nuestra América
, Vol 1. (1983).

Index

“Passim” (literally “scattered”) indicates intermittent discussion of a topic over a cluster of pages.

A

Abarca, Mariano, 158

Abt Associates, 92, 244n43

Acapulco, Mexico, 125, 163

ACC.
See
Autodefensas Campesinas del Casanare (ACC)

Achi people, 170, 171

aerial spraying (drug interdiction).
See
crop eradication (drug interdiction)

aerospace industry, 94, 106

Afghanistan, 38, 63, 92, 98, 128, 186

African Americans, 41

African palm tree, 65, 66, 175, 220

Afro-Colombians, 62, 66–71 passim

agriculture.
See
farmers and farming

Agua Azul, Colombia, 54

Ahuas, Honduras, 185, 212, 213

AirScan, Inc., 12–13

alcohol, 43–45 passim, 144.
See also
Prohibition (1920–33)

Alexander, Michelle, 41

Alliance for Progress, 196

Almendarez, Juan, 198, 204

Alvarado, Leobardo, 122–23

Álvarez, Oscar, 211–12

Álvarez, Rudel Mauricio, 182–83

amphetamines, 46.
See also
methamphetamines

Amnesty International, 133

Andres, Peter, 45

Anglo American, 65, 67

Anglo Gold Ashanti, 68, 69

anticommunism, 170–71

anti-Semitism, 203

Aportela Rodríguez, Fernando, 97

Arabs in Honduras, 203

Arauca, Colombia, 11–14, 58, 78, 221

Árbenz Guzmán, Jacobo, 169, 186

Árevalo, Juan José, 169, 170

Argentina, 103, 258n17

Ariza Aguilar, Jhon Carlos, 221

arraigo
, 105

Asociación Hondureño Maquiladores.
See
Honduran Association of Manufacturers (AHM)

Asociación Nacional de Industriales de Honduras.
See
National Industrial Association (ANDI) (Honduras)

assassinations and assassination attempts: Colombia, 54, 58–68 passim; Guatemala, 170; Honduras, 209, 216; Mexico, 113, 114, 122, 143, 145, 153–58 passim.
See also
“false positive” assassinations,

Atala, Camilo, 202

Atala family, 203

atrocities, 65–66, 70, 165

Australia, 24, 40, 67, 90

Autodefensas Campesinas del Casanare (ACC), 54

Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), 55, 61, 65–67 passim, 70, 79

automobile industry, 23, 94, 103

avocadoes, 164–65, 166

B

“Bacrim” (label), 55, 78–79, 168

Baja California, Mexico, 26, 147

Bámaca, Efraín, 173, 259n30

Banacol, 67

banana industry, 65, 67, 169, 181, 195

banks and banking, 95, 96, 106–7, 183, 196, 199.
See also
World Bank

Barnes, Earnest, 188

Barrera, Abel, 135–36

Barry, Tom:
Zapata’s Revenge
, 22

Bartholow, Lydia Anne, 39–40

Barzón movement, 155

Ba Tiul, Kajkok Maximo, 173–74, 190, 191–92

Bayer, 45–46

Belize, 37, 129

Beltran Leyva, Arturo, 139, 253n1

Benito Júarez, Mexico, 155–58

Berdal, Mats, 16

Berganza, Byron, 189

berry industry, 164

Beyond the Horizon (military exercises), 188

BHP Billiton, 65, 67, 68

Binns, Jack R., 198

black Americans.
See
African Americans

blackberries, 164

black Colombians.
See
Afro-Colombians

Blackfire, 158

Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), 213

blockades (direct action), 133–34, 159, 166, 177, 214

Boggs Act, 39

Bolivia, 21, 27, 28

bombings, 11–15 passim, 21, 165

Bonilla Valladares, Juan Carlos, 205

border control, 18, 32, 40, 128–29.
See also
US Customs and Border Protection; US Department of Homeland Security

Border Patrol Nation
(Miller), 127

borders, Mexican.
See
Guatemala-Mexico border; US-Mexico border

Bowden, Charles, 114

BP, 54, 62–63, 64, 65

Britain.
See
Great Britain

Brownfield, William, 32, 87–88, 189

Buenaventura, Colombia, 69–71

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
See
US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)

Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, 48, 125

Burgess, Luke, 75

Burgos Basin, Mexico, 152–53

Burma, 38

Bush, George H. W., 41

Bush, George W., 30, 57

businesses, multinational and transnational.
See
multinational and transnational corporations

businesses, small.
See
small business

Buxton, Julia:
The Political Economy of Narcotics
, 40

C

Caballeros Templarios.
See
Knights Templar (Mexican gang)

Cáceres, Berta, 194, 212, 214

CACM.
See
Central American Common Market (CACM)

caffeine, 43–44

Calderón, Felipe, 3, 25, 31, 37, 90, 106, 114, 129; Chihuahua violence and, 110–11; detention policy, 105; energy reform, 99; labor legislation, 93; security policy, 118; Sicilia view, 139–40; US relations, 30

Cali, Colombia, 60, 71

Callejas, Rafael, 199, 200

Campbell, Howard, 34–35

Canada, 71, 78, 90, 116, 185, 204, 233n72; mining industry, 101, 135, 154–58 passim, 175; oil industry, 77, 181, 183