Articles by Jon Lee Anderson

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Operation Amazon
Jon Lee Anderson | The New Yorker – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

3 Apr 2024 – As miners ravage Yanomami lands, combat-trained environmentalists work to root them out.

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Does Henry Kissinger Have a Conscience?
Jon Lee Anderson – The New Yorker, 22 Aug 2016

Latest revelations show Kissinger as the ruthless, active co-conspirator of Latin American military regimes engaged in war crimes [Operation Condor]. In evidence that emerged from previous declassifications of documents, Kissinger was shown not only to have been aware of what the military was doing but to have actively encouraged it.

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Burial Lessons: From Che to bin Laden
Jon Lee Anderson – The New Yorker, 9 May 2011

There are some uncanny analogies between the story of Osama bin Laden’s life and death and that of another charismatic political outlaw who, once upon a time, “declared war” on the United States. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the Argentine-Cuban revolutionary, was no terrorist, but a Communist ideologue who espoused violent political change through guerrilla wars around the world—to create “one, two, three, many Vietnams.” There are those who persist, vainly, in denying that it was really Che’s body that was found in Bolivia—as if that alone would somehow diminish the power of his legacy, which remains, for all the silly T-shirts, uniquely potent.

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