Bøger af Douglas Farah

Douglas Farah is an American journalist, author and national security consultant. Farah served as United Press International bureau chief in El Salvador from 1985 to 1987, and a freelance journalist for The Washington Post, Newsweek, and other publications until being hired as a staff correspondent for The Washington Post in 1992. While working for the Post, Farah served as bureau chief of Central American and the Caribbean until 1997, international investigative reporter between 1998 and 2000, and of West Africa between 2000 and 2003. He left the Post in 2004, and has since authored two books and served as a contributor to peer reviewed publications such as the Journal of International Affairs and analysis pieces for Foreign Policy and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is currently President of IBI Consultants LLC. -oOo- Douglas Farah es un periodista estadounidense, autor y consultor de seguridad nacional. Farah se desempeñó como jefe de la oficina de United Press International en El Salvador de 1985 a 1987, y periodista independiente para The Washington Post, Newsweek y otras publicaciones hasta que fue contratado como corresponsal de The Washington Post en 1992. Mientras trabajaba para el Post, Farah fue jefe de la oficina de Centroamérica y el Caribe hasta 1997, periodista de investigación internacional entre 1998 y 2000, y de África occidental entre 2000 y 2003. Dejó el Post en 2004. Es autor de dos libros y ha contribuido con publicaciones tales como el Journal of International Affairs y realizado análisis para Foreign Policy y el Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Actualmente es presidente de IBI Consultants LLC.

The emergence of new hybrid (state and nonstate) transnational criminal/terrorist franchises in Latin America operating under broad state protection now pose a tier-one security threat for the United States. Similar hybrid franchise models are developing in other parts of the world, which makes the understanding of these new dynamics an important factor in a broader national security context. This threat goes well beyond the traditional nonstate theory of constraints activity, such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and human trafficking, into the potential for trafficking related to weapons of mass destruction by designated terrorist organizations and their sponsors. These activities are carried out with the support of regional and extra-regional state actors whose leadership is deeply enmeshed in criminal activity, which yields billions of dollars in illicit revenues every year. These same leaders have a publicly articulated, common doctrine of asymmetrical warfare against the United States and its allies that explicitly endorses as legitimate the use of weapons of mass destruction. The central binding element in this alliance is a hatred for the West, particularly the United States, and deep anti-Semitism, based on a shared view that the 1979 Iranian Revolution was a transformative historical event. For Islamists, it is evidence of divine favor; and for Bolivarians, a model of a successful asymmetrical strategy to defeat the "Empire." The primary architect of this theology/ideology that merges radical Islam and radical, anti-Western populism and revolutionary zeal is the convicted terrorist Ilich Sanchez Ramirez, better known as "Carlos the Jackal," whom Chavez has called a true visionary.

ENGLISHHow a once moribund revolution fueled by petro dollars remade Latin America and the strategic challenge posed to the united statesWhile Venezuela is generally viewed as the architect of the Bolivarian movement, the Cuban role transformed the radical populist movement into a tier-one challenge to the United States.THE AUTHORDouglas Farah is an American journalist, author and national security consultant. Farah served as United Press International bureau chief in El Salvador from 1985 to 1987, and a freelance journalist for The Washington Post, Newsweek, and other publications until being hired as a staff correspondent for The Washington Post in 1992. While working for the Post, Farah served as bureau chief of Central American and the Caribbean until 1997, international investigative reporter between 1998 and 2000, and of West Africa between 2000 and 2003. He left the Post in 2004, and has since authored two books and served as a contributor to peer reviewed publications such as the Journal of International Affairs and analysis pieces for Foreign Policy and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is currently President of IBI Consultants LLC. EN ESPAÑOLCómo una revolución moribunda alimentada por petrodólares intenta rehacer América Latina y el desafío estratégico que esto plantea para Estados UnidosMientras que Venezuela generalmente se ve como el arquitecto del movimiento Bolivariano, el papel de Cuba realmente ha transformado el movimiento populista radical en un desafío de primer nivel para los Estados Unidos.SOBRE EL AUTORDouglas Farah es un periodista estadounidense, autor y consultor de seguridad nacional. Farah se desempeñó como jefe de la oficina de United Press International en El Salvador de 1985 a 1987, y periodista independiente para The Washington Post, Newsweek y otras publicaciones hasta que fue contratado como corresponsal de The Washington Post en 1992. Mientras trabajaba para el Post, Farah fue jefe de la oficina de Centroamérica y el Caribe hasta 1997, periodista de investigación internacional entre 1998 y 2000, y de África occidental entre 2000 y 2003. Dejó el Post en 2004. Es autor de dos libros y ha contribuido con publicaciones tales como el Journal of International Affairs y realizado análisis para Foreign Policy y el Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Actualmente es presidente de IBI Consultants LLC.

Argentina, strictly speaking, does not belong to the XXI century socialism. However, participates and displays the characteristics of the populist governments. But two elements separated Argentina from other countries enrolled in the flow, the socialism of the XXI century, which are the safeguard of the institutions in that society. The first, the attitude of the Supreme Court, which has put a limit to the power of Kirchner, either in terms of trying to silence critical voices and to introduce a reform the judiciary, for the sake of a supposed "democratization ". The second is that the recent election or pre-election acts, show that the current government can no longer claim to speak for the majority, as in Bolivia, Ecuador and, in a more debatable, Venezuela. It is no longer possible, even more closed to its apologists, to talk about populism, if there is no majority. Douglas Farah, in these two works presented, provides two key elements to understand the government of Cristina Kirchner. Back to the future, showing how, under government corruption, the country is on a road to ruin. The other, the description of La Campora, is an analysis of a group of young people trying to take over the Argentine government and the economy has collapsed and created a system of authoritarian rule.

This report presents operational characteristics of transnational criminal networks originating in South America, identifies U.S. government policies and programs to counter these networks, and examines the military's role in that context.