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Darrin Wood (born 1965) is an American journalist, author, researcher, and political analyst whose work has focused on human rights, counterinsurgency, militarization, political violence, and social movements in Latin America and the Basque Country.[1]

Career

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Wood is the author of Leonard Peltier, la lucha india en voz alta (Madrid: Madre Tierra, 1993), a book concerning Native American activist Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement.[2]

During the 1990s and early 2000s, Wood published reporting and analysis concerning counterinsurgency doctrine, militarization, paramilitary groups, and political violence in publications including La Jornada, Gara, Pagina Abierta, CovertAction Quarterly, and Index on Censorship.[3][4][5]

His reporting addressed subjects including the School of the Americas, the conflict in Chiapas, anti-ETA death squads in Spain, and militia movements in the United States.[6]

Wood also reported on the GAL anti-ETA death squads and political violence in Spain during the 1990s, publishing investigations in CovertAction Quarterly, El Mundo, and the Basque newspaper Egin.[7]

In 1998, Wood participated in an international human-rights commission to Chiapas as a representative of a Spanish human-rights organization, according to reporting archived by GlobalSecurity.org.[8]

Wood directed Nuevo Amanecer Press, an investigative publication and research project focused on militarization, counterinsurgency, and human-rights issues in Latin America.[9]

Wood's reporting and investigations concerning militarization, counterinsurgency, and paramilitary violence in Chiapas were cited in academic works, political histories, and human-rights reports concerning the Chiapas conflict and U.S.–Mexico military relations.[10][11][12][13]

The Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas cited Wood's analysis of militarization and GAFE special-forces training in reports concerning the conflict in Chiapas.[14]

Wood's investigations concerning militarization and counterinsurgency in Chiapas were also referenced by journalist John Ross in works concerning the Zapatista movement and political violence in southern Mexico.[15]

Wood's work was also referenced in studies concerning Mexican security policy and militarization by criminologist and human-rights scholar Enrique González Ruiz.[16]

In 2007, Wood presented the paper El Nuevo Paradigma de las Fuerzas Armadas en el mundo: El fin de la guerra Estado-Industrial at the International Congress on Conflict, Conflict Resolution and Peace held in Barcelona and associated with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.[17]

Wood contributed commentary and correspondence to Basque media outlets including Halabedi, Berria, and the GARA/NAIZ media network.[18][19]

In 2024, NAIZ published Wood's article "¡Viva Zapata!", concerning musician Mia Zapata, underground music culture, and the Seattle punk scene.[20]

Publications

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  • Leonard Peltier, la lucha india en voz alta (Madre Tierra, 1993)
  • Alumnos del Tío Sam: Tratado de libre contrainsurgencia (2025)
  • Desde la galería de la muerte, by Mumia Abu-Jamal, with epilogue by Darrin Wood and Leonard Weinstein (1993)[21]

Documentary

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  • Testimonio del Ejido Morelia (1994)[22]
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Category:1965 births Category:Living people Category:American journalists Category:American political writers Category:American documentary filmmakers Category:People from Massillon, Ohio

  1. ^ "Askoz errazagoa da salbuespen legeak onartzea baino bertan behera uztea baino". Berria (in Basque).
  2. ^ "Darrin Wood". TodosTusLibros.
  3. ^ "La conexión de EU con la guerra sucia". La Jornada. 2002-11-02.
  4. ^ Darrin Wood (1995–1996). "Spain's Dirty War". CovertAction Quarterly.
  5. ^ "Net wars". Index on Censorship. 2007.
  6. ^ "Campus México de la escuela de asesinos". CONAI/Fundar.
  7. ^ Darrin Wood (1995–1996). "Spain's Dirty War". CovertAction Quarterly.
  8. ^ "Mexico: Human Rights Observers Ordered Out Of Chiapas". GlobalSecurity.org. 1998-05-06.
  9. ^ John Mason Hart (2002). Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War. University of California Press.
  10. ^ John Mason Hart (2002). Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War. University of California Press.
  11. ^ Bill Weinberg (2000). Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico. Verso.
  12. ^ Víctor Campa Mendoza (1999). Las insurrecciones de los pueblos indios en México: La rebelión zapatista en Chiapas. Ediciones Cuéllar. ISBN 970-91590-4-6.
  13. ^ María José Rodríguez Rejas (2017). La norteamericanización de la seguridad en América Latina. Akal. ISBN 978-607-97816-8-2.
  14. ^ La guerra en Chiapas y la militarización de México (Report). Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas. 1999.
  15. ^ John Ross (1995). Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas. Common Courage Press.
  16. ^ Enrique González Ruiz (2000). La política oficial de seguridad pública en México.
  17. ^ Darrin Wood (2007). "El Nuevo Paradigma de las Fuerzas Armadas en el mundo: El fin de la guerra Estado-Industrial". I Congreso Internacional: Conflictos, Conflictología y Paz. Barcelona.
  18. ^ "Corresponsalia Internacional: EEUU de la mano de Darrin Wood". Halabedi.
  19. ^ "Aterabide demokratikoen alde aritutakoentzat askatasun eskaera". Berria.
  20. ^ "¡Viva Zapata!". NAIZ. 2024-12-18.
  21. ^ "Desde la galería de la muerte". Google Books.
  22. ^ "Testimonio del Ejido Morelia". YouTube.
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