基本説明
The School of the Americas is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than 60,000 soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America. Gill exposes the School's institutionalization of state-sponsored violence.
Full Description
Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since it was founded in 1946. So widely documented is the participation of the School's graduates in torture, murder, and political repression throughout Latin America that in 2001 the School officially changed its name to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Lesley Gill goes behind the façade and presents a comprehensive portrait of the School of the Americas. Talking to a retired Colombian general accused by international human rights organizations of terrible crimes, sitting in on classes, accompanying soa students and their families to an upscale local mall, listening to coca farmers in Colombia and Bolivia, conversing with anti-soa activists in the cramped office of the School of the Americas Watch—Gill exposes the School's institutionalization of state-sponsored violence, the havoc it has wrought in Latin America, and the strategies used by activists seeking to curtail it.Based on her unprecedented level of access to the School of the Americas, Gill describes the School's mission and training methods and reveals how its students, alumni, and officers perceive themselves in relation to the dirty wars that have raged across Latin America. Assessing the School's role in U.S. empire-building, she shows how Latin America's brightest and most ambitious military officers are indoctrinated into a stark good-versus-evil worldview, seduced by consumer society and the "American dream," and enlisted as proxies in Washington's war against drugs and "subversion."
Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: The Teflon Assassin xiii
Introduction: The Military, Political Violence, and Impunity 1
1. Georgia Not on Their Minds 23
2. De-Mining Humanitarianism 43
3. Foot Soldiers of the U.S. Empire 59
4. Pathways to Power 90
5. Strategic Alliances 110
6. Human Wrongs and Rights 137
7. Disordering the Andes 163
8. Targeting the " School of Assassins" 198
Conclusion: The School of the Americas 233
Notes 245
References Cited 259
Index 271
