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Back from an amazing honeymoon and straight into work mode. Above is the opening on my latest piece for the School of the Americas Watch about the shocking history of what’s now been catchily renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation for PR purposes. Essentially it’s a military school for Latin American troops to be trained in counter-insurgency tactics (torture, interrogation, etc) by benevolent US personnel. Not only have SOA graduates have been repeatedly linked to cases of mass murder and horrific violence against civilian populations (La Cantuta, El mozote), but it’s also trained some of the last century’s most infamous latin american military dictators.
On a lighter note, my piece on the apocalypse (that’s what passes for light round here) has secured me a regular slot at Religion Dispatches. The next one’s due in March. Also, the talented Joe Shansky, whose reporting from Tegucigalpa I turned into comic, has just lauched his website, which I highly recommend. It’s got all of his reporting on Honduras collected in place and makes for a revelatory read, especially in light of the unreported swathe of dissident murders.
And lastly, for those of you in need of aural enhancement in the new year, subscribe immediately to the Hospital records podcast, which serves up quality drum n bass, free, every other week.
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