Tom Farer’s ‘Latin Americanization’ thesis deserves comment; i.e. that recent anti-terrorism / Guantanamo  measures by the Bush administration are comparable to tactics that certain authoritarian Latin American regimes undertook, in that (i) states of emergency were proclaimed in conjunction with incursions on human rights, and that (ii) neither judicial nor congressional oversight effectively limited the executive’s power. The analogy between the current US administration’s behavior towards … Continue reading The ‘Latin Americanization’ Thesis