Lives in the Balance:  Failing States, Ungoverned Spaces and the Indigenous Challenge in Latin America

Martin Edwin Andersen

Martin Edwin Andersen, chief of strategic communications and an adjunct professor at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, has been involved in Native American rights issues in the United States and Latin America for more than three decades.  While working on the professional staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he authored the Cranston Amendment, signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1992, requiring the U.S. State Department to include a section on the rights of indigenous peoples its annual human rights report to Congress. The views expressed in this article are his own, and to not reflect those of CHDS nor the Department of Defense.

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