Sunday, January 16, 2005

National Security Archives: The Blind Man and the Elephant

George Washington University's National Security Archives in conjunction with Proceso magazine are documenting and reporting on formerly secret documents about the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico. Below is the first report in a series and other sources:
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"The Blind Man and the Elephant: Reporting on the Mexican Military"
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 120
Edited by Kate Doyle

This new Electronic Briefing Book is based on a collaboration between Proceso magazine and the National Security Archive and launched on March 2, 2003. The collaboration grew out of a shared desire to publish and disseminate to a wide audience newly-declassified documents about the United States and Mexico. Each month, Proceso magazine will publish an article by the Archive's Mexico Project director, Kate Doyle, examining new documentary evidence on a chosen topic. The series - called Archivos Abiertos (or, Open Archive), will draw from U.S. and Mexican declassified records on a range of issues that could include, for example: drug trafficking and counternarcotics policy, Mexican presidential elections, human rights cases, immigration, U.S. training of the Mexican military, NAFTA negotiations, the role of the press, peso devaluations, and state repression during Mexico's "dirty war." On the same day that Proceso's article appears in Mexico, the National Security Archive will post an Electronic Briefing Book on its web site, containing an English-language version of the article, a link to Proceso's web site, and all of the declassified documents used for the piece, reproduced in their entirety.

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