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For more than fifty years, the United States supported the Colombian military in a war that cost over 200,000 lives. During a single period of heightened U.S. assistance known as Plan Colombia, the Colombian military killed more than 5,000 civilians. In Plan Colombia John Lindsay-Poland narrates a 2005 massacre in the San Jose de Apartado Peace Community and the subsequent investigation, official cover-up, and response from the international community. He examines how the multibillion-dollar U.S. military aid and official indifference contributed to the Colombian military's atrocities. Drawing on his human rights activism and interviews with military officers, community members, and human rights defenders, Lindsay-Poland describes grassroots initiatives in Colombia and the United States that resisted militarized policy and created alternatives to war. Although they had few resources, these initiatives offered models for constructing just and peaceful relationships between the United States and other nations. Yet, despite the civilian death toll and documented atrocities, Washington, DC, considered Plan Colombia's counterinsurgency campaign to be so successful that it became the dominant blueprint for U.S. military intervention around the world.
For more than fifty years, the United States supported the Colombian military in a war that cost over 200,000 lives. During a single period of heightened U.S. assistance known as Plan Colombia, the Colombian military killed more than 5,000 civilians. In Plan Colombia John Lindsay-Poland narrates a 2005 massacre in the San Jose de Apartado Peace Community and the subsequent investigation, official cover-up, and response from the international community. He examines how the multibillion-dollar U.S. military aid and official indifference contributed to the Colombian military's atrocities. Drawing on his human rights activism and interviews with military officers, community members, and human rights defenders, Lindsay-Poland describes grassroots initiatives in Colombia and the United States that resisted militarized policy and created alternatives to war. Although they had few resources, these initiatives offered models for constructing just and peaceful relationships between the United States and other nations. Yet, despite the civilian death toll and documented atrocities, Washington, DC, considered Plan Colombia's counterinsurgency campaign to be so successful that it became the dominant blueprint for U.S. military intervention around the world.
"[John Lindsay-Poland] tells us of ill-known truths and badly
understood realities and thus helps prevent useless hatreds between
two peoples who share so much common history. Panamanians must
aspire to be universal if we want to survive as a people and as a
nation in a globalized world, but we can only achieve that if we
are authentic. On that path toward ourselves, John Lindsay-Poland
has been and will be a welcome friend."-- Guillermo Castro,
Panamanian sociologist, from the afterword ""Emperors in the Jungle" stands out as a most valuable contribution to understandings of the complex relationship between the United States and a tiny neighbor. It is one of the best available examples of Thucydides's dictum that large nations do what they want, and small nations accept what they must, yet at the same time a reminder that small nations are not without power--after all is said and done, Panama now owns its canal."--Lars Schoultz, author of "Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America" "John Lindsay-Poland hasdedicated himself to issues of human
rights and justice for Panamanians. His tireless efforts continue
to motivate people and shed needed light on the truths he
discovers. "Emperors in the Jungle" is a timeless look at the real
dimensions of U.S. foreign policy."--Barbara Trent, director of the
Academy Award(R)-winning documentary, "The Panama Deception
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