· July, 2015

Stories about War & Conflict from July, 2015

Ostula and Mexican Army Hold to Clashing Versions of Recent Attack

  28 July 2015

In Mexico, the independent investigation agency SubVersiones has published a compilation video that chronologically shows what events that took place on July 19, 2015, in the indigenous Nahua community of Santa María de Ostula. That day ended with four wounded and a dead child, after Mexican soldiers allegedly opened fired on civilians during an operation designed to arrest a leader of a local self-defense...

Rewriting the History of Plan Colombia

  21 July 2015

A five-star general's specious narrative about the program’s success ignores the crimes and impunity of the Colombian military, and excuses the U.S. for fostering systemic human rights violations.