Blowback: From Latin America to Afghanistan
By: GRITtv Wednesday November 25, 2009
The School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia, has long been a training facility for Latin American military officers, many of whom have gone on to be involved in gross human rights violations. A graduate of the SOA is one of the coup leaders in Honduras.
Twenty years ago last week, SOA graduates massacred six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador. We look back at the effects of US intervention in Latin America and connect the patterns to the current situations in Afghanistan and Iraq with Christian Parenti, Nation contributor and author of The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror, Rev. Luis Barrios, chair of the Department of Latin American & Latina/o Studies at John Jay College in New York, and Bill Quigley, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage.
Twenty years ago last week, SOA graduates massacred six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador. We look back at the effects of US intervention in Latin America and connect the patterns to the current situations in Afghanistan and Iraq with Christian Parenti, Nation contributor and author of The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror, Rev. Luis Barrios, chair of the Department of Latin American & Latina/o Studies at John Jay College in New York, and Bill Quigley, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage.
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