How US 'school for assassins' trained tyrants in torture, murder and dictatorship to prevent rise of communism
"If you go through any human rights reports about any country in Latin America then pretty much anyone who is named as an assassin, a dictator or torturer is likely to have passed through the school," Lesley Gill, an academic and author ofIts ‘graduates’ included General Leopoldo Galtieri, who led the military junta in Argentina during the country’s ‘Dirty War’ that saw 30,000 people "disappear".
"Suddenly all this money from the US went into military training - and that’s when the SOA really came into its own," says Gill. In 1981, the El Salvadoran army wiped out the village of El Mozote, killing 800 civilians — raping, torturing, and beating them in the process., of the 12 officers mentioned in its report, 10 were SOA graduates.
In a push for revolution, Fidel Castro organised an armed revolt against Batista in July of that year - now known as the start of The Cuban Revolution.When he was released two years later he went to Mexico with his brother Raul and met up with famed revolutionary Ché Guevara. Cuba and the United States maintained a difficult relationship well into the first decade of the 21st century.
Roy Bourgeois, the group's spokesperson, had heard rumours that there was a US military base where Latin American soldiers were being taught to infiltrate civilian organisations and torture dissidents.
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