Plan Colombia

John Lindsay-Poland is Healing Justice Associate at the American Friends Service Committee and author of Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama, also published by Duke University Press.

• List of Abbreviations  ixAcknowledgments  xiiiPrologue  1Introduction: Challenging American Exceptionalism  71. The Longest War: U.S. Military Influence in Colombia, 1952-1995  262. War on the Frontier  383. How Plan Colombia Was Sold  514. "We Want a Witness": Accompaniment in San JosÉ de ApartadÓ 645. Mapping Our War: Where Did U.S. Aid in Colombia Go?  836. Killing the Future  1017. Projects of Life  1238. Massacre Aftermath and Cover-Up  1409. Widespread and Systematic: The Dynamics of "Legalized" Murder  15110. The United States Effect: Impacts on "False Positive" Killings  16411. Investigation of the Massacre  18312. An Encounter with Power  19813. Judicial Warfare  21014. U.S. Policy Lessons  220Conclusion: The Arc of Impunity  226Notes 233Bibliography  273Index  281

"Most studies of human rights violations approach cases at the national level and offer little insight into how U.S. military aid is territorialized. . . . By tracking the career trajectories of Colombian officers, Lindsay-Poland directs our attention to a shared war, and to a common counterinsurgent expertise, developed between the United States and Colombia over the course of 50 years." - Emma Shaw Crane (NACLA)