Tag: C.I.A: School of the Americas

NOVANEWS Over 64,000 soldiers have been trained to oppress, smash dissent, and maintain American imperial order since the “school” first opened. By Kit O'Connell MintPress News Note to readers: please click the share buttons above   Featured image: A guest instructor debriefs students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School after a field training exercise. (U.S. Navy photo) This article was originally published on December 2015. * For the past 69 years, many of the most notorious U.S.-backed South American dictators, along with their secret police and torturers, have learned their dark arts from a secretive American training facility. Located in Fort Benning, Georgia, the facility changed its ...