The U.S. Invasion of Panama: The Truth Behind Operational 'Just Cause'

South End Press, 1991. hardcover. Very Good. 5x0x8. South End Press [Published Date: 1991]. Hardcover, 151 pp. Second Edition, first printing. Very good/ NO dust jacket. Light blue cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. The Independent Commission of Inquiry was established by a politically diverse group of Panamanians, others from the Caribbean, and U.S. human rights activists who set as its fundamental task making public the truth about the deaths, destruction and suffering caused by the invasion. The book includes the commission's report and legal commentary from former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Contents include: Ramsy Clark : We never heard the truth; Philip Agee: Only the latest and not the last; Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry; Olga Mejia: A crime against humanity. Edilma Icaza: I want to relive the invasion with you; Hector Aleman: The workers in our country are suffering great repression; Mario Rognoni: The Panama case has just been opened; Graciela Dixon: The people have been pushed into concentration camps; Alberto Barrow: Racism was central to the invasion; Cecilio Simon: They invaded the school of the only black dean; Teresa Gutierrez, Valerie Van Isler: Six months after the invasion: growing crisis and resistance; CODEHUCA: human rights organizations must analyze U.S. motives; Euclides Fuentes Arroyo: Human rights do not exist here; We offer our lives in the name of liberty; Rio Hato worker: The students were machine-gunned before they could surrender; General Noriega: Panama is a focus of U.S. geopolitical strategy; Resolution of the Organization of American States; Raul Castro Ruz: The essence of our movement is being tested in Panama; Ronald Reagan: We're up against tremendous odds.