Sentences with phrase «american death squad»

One was the drug - trafficking leader of a South American death squad.

Falling into the clutches of a Central American death squad?

Whilst what we have in the UK is patently not a «distributed totalitarianism» such as happened with the South American death squads of 80s, the trends are extremely worrying.

Not exact matches

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Using his experience with an American bomb squad to develop a fictitious story for «The Hurt Locker» is one thing, but writer Mark Boal's decision to tackle the death of Osama bin Laden takes journalistic moviemaking to another level, one that comes with an immense amount of societal and ethical pressure, on top of the challenge of just making a good movie.

No one will hire him because he's either too drunk, too dishonest or too leftist to be relied on to take pictures of the various atrocities committed by right - wing death squads, left - wing guerillas or the American military - intelligence «advisors».

By the time death squads are cruising the streets and babies are being raffled for charity, Samson's dry, plain language has tricked us into accepting her reality, painting a picture of the modern American hellscape where we're only too eager to put our birthright on the auction block to make a quick buck.

The Colombian artist has been around long enough to become something of a role model for Latin American art, to the point that he has earned an acronym, JASL, and theirs is not the Colombia of death squads and drug wars for Juan Manuel Echavarría.