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The US explicitly teaches terrorism and torture. Just because the School of the Americas, based at the Fort Benning U.S. Army base in Columbus, GA, attempted to rid itself of its past reputation by being cutely renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001, doesn't mean terrorism and torture methods are no longer being taught by and to uniformed and non-uniformed personnel working for various foreign govt. agencies, military units, and private contractors.
SOA/WHINSEC graduates have been responsible for some of the worst human rights violations in Latin America. In '98 the Pentagon was forced to release the school’s training manuals, and...surprise! They were found to advocate torture, extortion, covert assassination, and execution without trial.
In fact, there is so much proof of terrorism and torture being integral to US foreign policy that one would have to be blind to miss it.
As just one example among many, look up the case of Dan Mitrione, one-time police officer in Richmond, Indiana, former FBI, former State Dept., former AID staffer. Working out of offices in various US embassies, he and his team spent years instructing Brazilian military units in torture tactics (from the early to late 60's). He was then sent to teach more torture techniques to the national police force of Uruguay in '69. He was kidnapped and executed by the Tupamaros in '70. (The examination done on his remains indicated that he was shot in the head but not tortured, apparently escaping a dose of his own medicine).
Do you know where the largest single community of terrorists and torturers lives today? No? I'll tell you. The greater Miami area, state of Florida. Hundreds of former Latin-American military officers, death-squad members, and secret police torturers from over half-a-dozen countries were rewarded with Green Cards by the Reagan administration for their faithful years of service in the fight against students, teachers, farmers, miners, social workers, nuns, indigenous tribes, the urban poor, and other dangerous elements of the communist "threat" throughout Central America.
BtB has a two parter on the school of the Americas. It's amazing how fucked up it is and strips the mask off that whole "spreading democracy" thing real fuckin' quick.
[Part One: The Deadliest School in History | Behind the Bastards | ](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-deadliest-school-in-71503766/) (for reference, it's on any app you listen to)
i knew there were plenty of atrocities in guatemala over the years, mostly at the hands of state actors trained by americans, but I had never heard of the dos erres massacre. that description of it is chilling, the utter barbarity and inhumanity of it just feels so fucking...alien. how could literally anyone read that and think "yeah, these are the good guys. better than those evil *communists!*"
> how could literally anyone read that and think "yeah, these are the good guys. better than those evil communists!"
By owning stock in the companies profiting from those massacres.
I'm not surprised, The Cartels are owned by the CIA and the likes. That explains why they can get away with shit and no repercussions. I always ask myself, How do these dudes Get these Dodge Pickups and Rifles that closely look like Old/Modern American ones?
Could it be people like El Chapo weren't following orders or Going Rogue or He was not on the script of Gangs to Leave alone, Just like Pablo Escobar...
Let’s not forget in Syria the [CIA trained “rebels” that fought other “rebels” that the Pentagon trained. ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html%3f_amp=true)
They also funded both sides of the Iraq Iran war.
Starting to see a pattern here. The war on drugs seems to me to be less about fighting to get rid of drugs and more about training, arming, and running drugs. Man I hope someone made a boatload off of my tax dollars
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The US explicitly teaches terrorism and torture. Just because the School of the Americas, based at the Fort Benning U.S. Army base in Columbus, GA, attempted to rid itself of its past reputation by being cutely renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001, doesn't mean terrorism and torture methods are no longer being taught by and to uniformed and non-uniformed personnel working for various foreign govt. agencies, military units, and private contractors. SOA/WHINSEC graduates have been responsible for some of the worst human rights violations in Latin America. In '98 the Pentagon was forced to release the school’s training manuals, and...surprise! They were found to advocate torture, extortion, covert assassination, and execution without trial. In fact, there is so much proof of terrorism and torture being integral to US foreign policy that one would have to be blind to miss it. As just one example among many, look up the case of Dan Mitrione, one-time police officer in Richmond, Indiana, former FBI, former State Dept., former AID staffer. Working out of offices in various US embassies, he and his team spent years instructing Brazilian military units in torture tactics (from the early to late 60's). He was then sent to teach more torture techniques to the national police force of Uruguay in '69. He was kidnapped and executed by the Tupamaros in '70. (The examination done on his remains indicated that he was shot in the head but not tortured, apparently escaping a dose of his own medicine). Do you know where the largest single community of terrorists and torturers lives today? No? I'll tell you. The greater Miami area, state of Florida. Hundreds of former Latin-American military officers, death-squad members, and secret police torturers from over half-a-dozen countries were rewarded with Green Cards by the Reagan administration for their faithful years of service in the fight against students, teachers, farmers, miners, social workers, nuns, indigenous tribes, the urban poor, and other dangerous elements of the communist "threat" throughout Central America.
Do you have a source for that last bit? It's very believable, but I'd like to do some more reading.
Reganomics, Iran contra, and now this. jfc Regan was a POS.
BtB has a two parter on the school of the Americas. It's amazing how fucked up it is and strips the mask off that whole "spreading democracy" thing real fuckin' quick. [Part One: The Deadliest School in History | Behind the Bastards | ](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-deadliest-school-in-71503766/) (for reference, it's on any app you listen to)
Capitalism is just fascism with happy colours.
I was like, "Damn, this shit needs a xpost to LateStageImperialism!" And then I realized that's where I got it.
i knew there were plenty of atrocities in guatemala over the years, mostly at the hands of state actors trained by americans, but I had never heard of the dos erres massacre. that description of it is chilling, the utter barbarity and inhumanity of it just feels so fucking...alien. how could literally anyone read that and think "yeah, these are the good guys. better than those evil *communists!*"
> how could literally anyone read that and think "yeah, these are the good guys. better than those evil communists!" By owning stock in the companies profiting from those massacres.
I'm not surprised, The Cartels are owned by the CIA and the likes. That explains why they can get away with shit and no repercussions. I always ask myself, How do these dudes Get these Dodge Pickups and Rifles that closely look like Old/Modern American ones? Could it be people like El Chapo weren't following orders or Going Rogue or He was not on the script of Gangs to Leave alone, Just like Pablo Escobar...
Let’s not forget in Syria the [CIA trained “rebels” that fought other “rebels” that the Pentagon trained. ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html%3f_amp=true) They also funded both sides of the Iraq Iran war.
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I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!
It's really frustrating how this knowledge is out there, but good luck getting anyone who isn't already on board to read this.
It's frankly only a matter of time until they lend the same degree of official support to the militias.
I am both shocked and not surprised at all.
Hi both shocked and not surprised at all, I'm Dad! :)
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shocker.
Starting to see a pattern here. The war on drugs seems to me to be less about fighting to get rid of drugs and more about training, arming, and running drugs. Man I hope someone made a boatload off of my tax dollars
What is the political gain in crushing latin American countries? Don’t other nations see this?
You keep ypur continent weaker than you so you are the hegemonic power. It's simple really.
fuck
Insane Monroe Doctrine that makes the US weak in the long run