Michael Ratner

Looks at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba and the people being held there by the United States.

"Apoyándose en documentación interna del Gobierno de los EEUU, en su mayoría nunca antes publicada, Michael Ratner y Michael Steven Smith aportan sus capacidades forenses para demostrar de manera irrefutable que la CIA no solo estaba al tanto y aprobaba la ejecución de Ernesto Che Guevara en Bolivia, sino que la Agencia fue el instrumento que la hizo posible. Con exhaustividad y detalle, estos dos eminentes abogados especialistas en Derechos Humanos investigan la muerte del revolucionario más estudiado de todos y, al hacerlo, relatan todo el arco de la notable vida del Che, enfocándose en sus días en Bolivia, donde luego de meses de lucha en un intento por expandir la Revolución comenzada en La Habana, resulta herido, capturado y ejecutado."--

"Includes chapters on what today's activists must know about the threats posed by federal law enforcement agents and their tactics, as well as the actual text of the recently released FBI Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide in which the FBI spells out its approach to policing dissent. Hell No also includes information on several key security practices that offer the best protection from government surveillance and interference. With an introduction on What's Happened to Dissent Today looking at the protests at the Republican National Convention by CCR board chair Michael Ratner and constitutional rights expert Margaret Ratner Kunstler Hell Nois an indispensable tool in the effort to give free speech true meaning in a post-9/11 world"--

>Published for the first time are the U.S. secret police files on the legendary revolutionary Ernesto Guevara, showing how the FBI and CIA monitored his movements and activity in the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Africa and Latin America. > >A Freedom of Information Act request succeeded in obtaining the FBI file on Guevara, containing a wide selection of CIA and other secret documents. > >With an introduction by the editors, U.S. attorneys Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith, this book poses the obvious question: why did the FBI have such a dossier? > >'Che is fairly intellectual for a Latino,' reads a 1958 CIA document on Guevara during the period of the guerrilla war in Cuba. Watched closely after the 1959 revolution, Guevara's every public word was recorded and transmitted to the FBI and CIA, with particular note taken of his anti-U.S. statements. > >Later documents concern Guevara's disappearance from Cuba in 1965 and his resurfacing in Africa and Bolivia as a guerrilla leader. > >The sensational materials included in these secret files add to suspicions that U.S. spy agencies were plotting to assassinate Guevara when he was a Cuban government leader in the early 1960s and suggest that they were involved in the pursuit and murder of Guevara in Bolivia in 1967. > >For all those interested in Che Guevara, Washington's relationship with Latin America and the workings of the U.S. spy agencies, this book is a significant new contribution. - jacket

In compelling detail, two leading US civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world's most storied revolutionary, Ernest "Che" Guevara.

"On any given day, over 20,000 men, women, and children languish in indefinite detention in the United States. In Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, thousands more are imprisoned or shipped to other countries where the rules for interrogation permit greater amounts of coercion and violence. These are America's disappeared. This book contains their voices, and the voices of those who fight for their rights as human beings."--Jacket.