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1:14 Let me know if you hear the video.

1:28 All right, so I'm going to start off by playing the video and see if you guys can hear it. Late afternoon of December 4, 1980, an unmarked grave was found in a field in El Salvador. When it was opened in the presence of the U.S. Ambassador, it revealed the bodies of four women. Mary Knoll's sisters, Maura Clark and Edith Ford. Ursuline's sister, Dorothy Cagle.

2:32 and lay missionary Gene Donovan. Of the five officers later found responsible for the rape and murder of... All right, hold on. I'm getting the feedback here. ...were graduates of the United States Army School of the Americas. The School of the Americas originated in 1946 in Panama. Now it is located on the grounds of Fort Benning, Georgia. The school teaches commando operations, sniper training, how to fire an M16...

3:05 and psychological warfare. Since no major declared war between Latin American countries has occurred in decades, and the communist threat has vanished, why provide this kind of training? Representative Joseph Kennedy. If you look at the course ranges that are offered to these individuals, they in fact are a dedicated way of teaching military leaders in...

3:33 foreign nations how to subvert their local communities. Since it opened, over 55,000 military officials from 23 Latin American and Caribbean countries have trained at the school, about 2,000 students a year. As facts have emerged about the school and its graduates, it has drawn the attention of a growing number of human rights activists, such as Maryknoll father Roy Bourgeois.

3:59 Just down the road here is his school, the School of the Americas. It's a combat school. Most of the courses come around, revolve around what they call counterinsurgency warfare. Who are the insurgents? We have to ask that question. They are the poor. They are the people in Latin America who call for reform. They are the landless peasants who are hungry. They are health care workers, human rights advocates, labor organizers.

4:26 They become the insurgents. They are seen as el enemigo, the enemy. And they are those who become the targets of those who are in their lessons at the School of the Americas. What has been learned about the lessons taught at the school? In the 1980s, the Civil War in El Salvador became a focal point for human rights activists throughout the world. Death squads operated freely, often killing 50 people a night.

4:56 There were so many cases that on March 23, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero in San Salvador made a plea to the military leaders of his country. I would like to make an appeal in a special way to the men of the army. In the name of God, in the name of the suffering people whose laments rise to the heaven each day more tumultuous, I beg you.

5:26 I ask you, I order you, in the name of God, stop the repression. While celebrating Mass the next day, Archbishop Romero was assassinated. A number of years later, the National Security Archives in Washington, D.C. made an important discovery when they obtained a copy of a declassified cable, Cape Doyle. These two cables are both from the American Embassy in El Salvador.

6:03 One is from Dean Hinton, who was then ambassador to El Salvador in 1981. Okay, I want to stop right here because what we're going to do real quick is we're going to look up Dean Hinson. And I thought that this was so important given Tucker's, it's just so weird that all of the information.

6:32 that he is putting out kind of correlates with what we're discovering. And I'm just doing this. Somebody just sent me this video. So we're going to do this together. And I want to let y'all know something at the end when I get done. All right. So Dean Hinton.

7:03 D-E-A-N-E-R-O-E-S-C-H, and his last name is H-I-N-T-O-N. He's originally from Montana, graduated from the University of Chicago in 1943, and immediately joined the Army in World War II. After World War II, he went to Harvard, and it's really weird.

7:32 that it says that he went to National War College 10 years later, which he must have went as an ambassador because it would have taken him 20 years to get in there if he had stayed in the military. So his foreign service, yeah, he definitely went in the political corps. Okay, so his foreign service was Syria, Kenya, Guatemala, France, when NATO was still in France.

8:05 Key point. Chile, holy shit. And then Zaire, after they couped it and installed their dictator from the Congo. So you've got Andy pissed off the dictator, Mobutu Seko.

8:36 And then he moves on to El Salvador, Pakistan, Costa Rica. And he was in Costa Rica during the time Costa Rica is launching the Contras into Nicaragua. Holy freaking shit. And then where does he go? Panama. Oh, my gosh. Okay. And he's a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

9:11 This is just, this is literally crazy. This network of these people. So also USAID alumni. I think Bridget just sent that to me. Yeah. Career diplomat, five nations. And he got his first appointment as an ambassador.

9:45 Oh my gosh, this is just crazy. And it was George H.W. Bush that sent him to Panama because of the whole drug scenario. And he was there when Noriega was taken out of power. That's just crazy. That's absolutely crazy. The correlations here, it's just amazing. Okay, so we'll look into that in a minute.

10:22 And he succeeded the guy by the name of Robert White, who was El Salvador before that. And this one's very important because this is the guy that I had looked up for. He was the deputy U.S. permanent representative to the Organization of American States, that OAS, which was involved in all of Operation Condor. OK, and.

10:52 He was also ambassador to Paraguay, which we know, of course, was also couped by the United States. And it even says in White's Wikipedia page that there was a 1978 cable concerning Operation Condor that was discovered when White was the Paraguay ambassador. So you see how they all stay together and they all end up in.

11:22 White was involved in the assassination of Orlando Letitier and Ronnie Moffitt on the streets of Washington, D.C. with the bomb explosion. All having to do. And he moved from Paraguay and assassinating people down there to El Salvador to set up what you are about to be watching. And he was also accused by the good.

11:51 El Salvadorian president of being a CIA asset. Okay, so you got it? All right, I'm going to go ahead and start that back up. And it discusses a meeting during which Roberto de Buisson plans the murder of Archbishop Romero. During the meeting, there is described a lottery that the people who are attending the meeting hold to see who would draw the right to kill Romero himself.

12:20 Dobison was trained at the School of the Americas. Also trained at the school were two of the three officers directly responsible for the assassination. December 11, 1981, El Mozote, a small village in El Salvador. First, they forced everyone out of their houses and made us all lie face down in the street, both men and women.

13:08 There were soldiers on both sides. Then they moved away to see the women kneeling down on the ground to pray. They killed all of them. Not a single one of them survived. Just me, by the grace of God. I hid under a tree. When I heard the screams of the children and I knew which ones were mine, they were crying.

13:33 Mommy, they're killing us. Over 900 men, women, and children were massacred. Virtually the entire population of the village and the area surrounding El Mozote. Out of 143 bodies identified in the laboratory, 131 were of children under the age of 12, including three infants under the age of three months.

14:04 Ten of the 12 officers cited as responsible for the El Mazote massacre were graduates of the School of the Americas. They were members of the Advocato Battalion, a part of the El Salvador Army. November 16, 1989, San Salvador. Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her 15-year-old daughter were slaughtered. To get the facts about this incident, a U.S. congressional investigation began.

14:37 led by Representative Joseph Moakley. I went down, talked with the embassy, talked with the military, talked with the unionists. The killing was done by the Atlas Battalion, which is the crack battalion in that country. And these are the people, some of them had just returned from the United States, where they were taught a course of human rights, amongst other things.

15:04 Nineteen of the 26 officers implicated in the Jesuit murders were graduates of the school. The United Nations Truth Commission report, released on March 15, 1993, cited specific officers for committing atrocities during the El Salvador Civil War. At School of the Americas Watch, just outside Fort Benning, Georgia,

15:27 Vicki Emmerman matched the names cited in the UN report with names in the United States government document. What I did was I took these officers, all the officers listed in the report, and I took their names and looked them up in this list of graduates of the School of the Americas, which we received through the Freedom of Information Act. What I found were 49 of the 60-some officers listed.

15:52 were graduates of the School of the Americas. El Salvador is only part of the school's story. In the entry area of one of its main buildings are photographs of those the school honors, its so-called Hall of Fame. At the top of the list, Hugo Banzer, former dictator of Bolivia, a graduate of the school.

16:17 Some of the others similarly honored are the former dictators of Honduras, Ecuador, and Argentina, and generals from eight other Latin and Caribbean nations, many cited by human rights groups for involvement in human rights abuses in their own countries. Among other graduates, Manuel Noriega, former president of Panama, currently in prison in the United States.

16:43 Four of the five ranking Honduran officers who organized death squads in the 1980s as part of Battalion 316 are graduates. Half of the 250 Colombian officers cited for human rights abuses attended the school. The three highest ranking Peruvian officers convicted in February 1994 of murdering nine university students and a professor were all graduates during the dictatorship of the Somoza family.

17:16 Over 4,000 National Guard troops graduated from the school. Many of them later became known as the Contras, responsible for the deaths of thousands of Nicaraguan peasants in the 1980s. The general in charge of Argentina's so-called Dirty War was a school graduate. During that internal conflict in the late 1970s and early 1980s, an estimated 30,000 people were tortured, disappeared, and murdered.

17:49 General Hector Gramajo of Guatemala was the featured speaker at the school's graduation ceremonies in 1991. Human rights groups claim he is the architect of strategies that legalized military atrocities in Guatemala, resulting in the death of over 200,000 men, women and children. As a Catholic priest, as a U.S. citizen, I really feel a responsibility to speak out against that because of this.

18:18 This does not lead to healing. It leads to death and suffering. In a way, this is a death machine. And this, I want to say, is very close to home because it's in our backyard. It's not out there in El Salvador. This is not in South Africa. We're talking about a school of assassins right here in our backyard being supported and financed through our tax money. It's being done in our name.

18:47 On September 30, 1993, the School of the Americas was debated by Congress for the first time in its history. It happened when an amendment to the Defense Department budget was introduced by Congressman Joseph Kennedy. Mr. Speaker, my amendment would reduce the Army Operation and Maintenance account by $2.9 million, the amount dedicated to running the Army School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. The intent of this amendment is to close the school. We're only...

19:16 30 or 40 votes short of winning. That means that if people around the country hear about this and write their congressman, we can win. This is an issue that we can win on. And what's very important right now, I feel, is to let our voices be heard. Bishop Romero said it best. Before he was killed, before he was assassinated by...

19:42 someone who trained at the School of the Americas. He said, we who have a voice, we have to speak for the voices. And I realize that we here in this country, we have a voice. We can speak without having to worry about being disappeared or tortured or being picked up. We can speak. And I just hope that we can speak fairly and boldly on this issue. I'm going to stop right there for just a second.

20:11 Do you see, this obviously was made a long time ago, okay? But do you see how the change has happened? This Catholic priest is saying we can speak without being disappeared. But I've made the point repeatedly to you guys, we are being cyberly disappeared by talking about stuff like this and saying things that you're not allowed to say.

20:40 It is a multi-step process to be from where we are now to where these people have been. And that's the road they have us on. They will make you cyber disappear before they get to the part where you physically disappear. I'm not very educated, but in my simple words, I think.

21:09 that the only thing the School of the Americas has accomplished is the destruction of our countries in Latin America. Don't give us any more of that military aid. It would be better to help the poor who are in need. We need the voices of others, and we also need those letters to congressional leaders to let them know that we will not allow them to use our money.

21:39 To run a school of assassins. So. That's the video. And. I haven't told my husband yet. So don't anybody tell him. We are going to. Take off this weekend. And I'm still going to be doing the shows and stuff. But we're going to go up. To Myrtle Beach South Carolina. With some friends. So I'll be in my mobile command post. But. I.

22:21 I'm going to make an appeal to him that we come back through Fort Benning, Georgia. And I want to go to this place. I want to see this for myself. Also, the organization that I didn't even know existed is School of America's Watch. I just reached out to them.

22:51 in the only way that I could, I tried to call them. It says that the number is in Arizona, but they do have a location in Fort Benning, Georgia too. I'm going to try to set up a meeting with them. I want to look at the material that they have because obviously the material that they have is all Operation Condor material. So I want to see what they have. I'm going to go through their website and see what parts of that we can bring here and highlight.

23:20 that will further our investigation into this whole topic. So I'm very excited about that. And hopefully I can talk my husband into going to Fort Benning so I can snoop around a little bit. But the real eye-opening part of this, if you remember, is I told you guys there's an article.

23:47 That says this school of assassins was opened up in the United States not that long ago to Border Patrol and ICE. And so now we're training entities that are under the Homeland Security apparatus that's all bullshit after 9-11, a Gladio event, to be these people.

24:20 This is the training they're going to. It's not modified. That's the training they're going to. Where they can pull straws to see who's going to get to shoot a priest. That should scare the living shit out of every American. So anyway, I just wanted to show you this and thank down in the description the follower on X that provided it to me. And obviously there will be more coming.

24:53 So that's basically all I have. Let's see. I want to see if anybody said anything. Hey, Crystal. I never thought I'll catch you live. Thank you for what you do. You're welcome, Crystal. Let's see. Oh, and Tara's here too. Great to see you. And of course, Bridget. And I think Kinsley is trying to do some advertising.

25:26 We're going to delete that because that's not what we do. And who else? Indy? Cindy. Hopefully Indy. Cindy's from Indianapolis, Indiana, maybe. So let's go through a couple of these things. While we were on the movie, Liza.

25:55 And Bridget in their wonderful research that they always do has sent me up, set me up with a couple of things that one of which was a democracy under fire, which is just laughable. They destroy democracy. Interview with that ambassador, Dean Hinton. So I want to read to you.

26:26 The interviewer asked him, what do you see the greatest security threat to Central America? Well, I can answer that without even reading this. It was the United States of America and the CIA. So Hinton's response is very telling. Here's his response. The greatest security threat is the possibility that in states such as Nicaragua. Now, keep in mind, Nicaragua.

26:55 Nicaragua has the Sandinistas freedom fighters that are the good guys and the Contras who are the CIA bad guys killing everybody in Nicaragua. But this is what the ambassador says. Such as Nicaragua with Cubans and Soviet ties. The only Cuban ties in Nicaragua was the Cuban exile Gladio operators that we sent down there to kill the people in Nicaragua. Just saying.

27:25 like Felix Rodriguez. They've even made noises and then retracted the noises that Nicaragua could be a place for missiles, all made up bullshit. People have got to understand that it is not that the Nicaraguans are going to overthrow the government of the U.S. It's that having this kind of Leninist police state in Central America will have an impact upon her neighbors and conceivably

27:57 provide a base for a superpower. That's a problem with security there. There was no freaking threat of a Soviet base in Nicaragua. There was a threat to United Fruit and the oligarchs in America to a duly elected president who wanted to give the land back to the people so they could have a middle class and thrive as a population. That was the threat.

28:27 a threat to oligarchs in the United States. And then all of the rest of the shit is all made up to justify murdering children, women, and men. So also what's remarkable is when you realize that all of this stuff went on, 70s, 80s.

29:01 And you have the El Salvadorian president that there's now, Bukele. And this had, they destroyed El Salvador. They destroyed El Salvador. Left it rotting. Dead bodies, graves you just saw. It was just completely destroyed. And all of the...

29:35 disgusting paramilitary training and the drugs that transited El Salvador created that hostile environment that was there. And then as you, as you heard him say, the El Salvadorians youth that went to LA and got in on and was ostracized.

30:04 to get in on the drug trade with their Mexican counterparts, getting territories and all the tattoos and all the other crap, then went back to their home country and insisted on being given quote unquote territory. So this is a cycle that further destroyed the country. That is what that man is dealing with. That is the...

30:34 The fact that he is not a bitter, nasty, wanting to destroy the United States CIA and hateful of the government that did that to his culture and his country is an act of God. It is his faith that he can be part of the change and the healing and the holding of hands for all of us.

31:03 together to move forward and he's setting the example. I just hope the rest of the people in South America are wise enough and as close to God as that they will join hands with him and do what he's done because he articulated it multiple times. He is doing it without the aid of America.

31:32 Because the oligarchs that control the aid in America do not want him to succeed. Because his success will be contagious. They want control, not freedom. They are the last thing. They're the furthest from democracy. And I don't even like democracy, but at least it's in the middle.

32:04 They don't want democracy. They want fascism because they work for oligarchs. They don't work for us. So anyway, Liza just said that she got, oh, the multiple interview with Hinton. Okay, so let's see what else he had to say.

32:39 The interviewer went on to say, what are the long-term and short-term objectives of the Reagan administration? And he said, well, the first one is a negative objective. That is, no more Cuba or Nicaraguans. In a positive sense, the objective is to nurture some new and fragile democracies and continue the development process. Yeah, new and fragile democracies. You know, because that's what we want, because we can control them.

33:11 As the president has said, the dialogue to seek political solutions and coordinate a defense effort is intended to ensure that the development program of the young democracies won't be swamped by Marxist-Leninist forces. The young democracies, like the one you destroyed in Chile and the one you destroyed in Uruguay and Paraguay, they were not young democracies. Those are very general terms.

33:39 But I think that's basically what it is. One of the president's speeches that is important but not usually seen in terms of South America was his London speech. In that speech, he spoke of democracy and the need for an approach contrary to the government shouldn't do things philosophy of Western democracies. I remember he noted the Soviets were pretty busy advancing their ideology around the world. We should make positive, aggressive efforts to advance ours.

34:10 And I'm saying that they were probably on their 50, 47 to 50 coups at that point. How much more aggressive do you want to get? And then the guy doing the interview says many Americans agree that the 1979 Sandinista revolution was backed by a broad spectrum of Nicaraguans. It was. He was popularly elected.

34:41 The Reagan administration, however, has accused the Sandinista leadership of purging moderates from the government, shifting the revolution left and aligning it with the Soviet Union and Cuba. To what extent is this accusation true? His response was 100%. It is 100% a fucking lie.

35:08 These are your State Department people lying to your face, and they still do it today. What do you believe the appropriate US response should be? I would like to see the Sandinistas carry out their commitments to the Organization of American States, another fascist organization the US created.

35:34 I should say the CIA created it. It seems to me that the objective is that they provide for pluralism and particularly that they provide for free democratic elections. All right, asshole. They were democratically elected and the pluralism that they had was across the board. They welcomed everybody into their government to include the labor unions who you call communist. That was their biggest sin in his eyes. Now.

36:06 How do you go about doing that is in a process of negotiations, the so-called contadora process. Let's hope it comes out the right way. There's only one way for it to come out, their way. There's a lot of talk about domino theories. I'd like to see a domino theory in reverse. Democracies hold improving the chance of democracy in Nicaragua. They don't want democracy.

36:34 According to the New York Times, even members of the Condora group have privately expressed little hope for a negotiated solution to the problem in Central America. What do you think the prospects are? Well, my appraisal is that they are dedicated Leninist revolutionaries. One can be rather skeptical, therefore, that they're not going to change or come to terms with the process.

37:03 There are some signs that they may evolve. I hope that a negotiated solution will be possible. One of the key issues for lasting negotiations is whether the Sandinistas will accept what they have promised in terms of a free democratic election. We will see. The negotiation process is going to be complicated. They were freely elected. They had free elections until you started interfering with them.

37:30 And their idea of a free and fair election is kind of like what we saw in 2020. He goes on to ask, how can the US government support the initiative and at the same time provide covert military assistance to rebels who are openly trying to overthrow, good for him, the Sandinista government? Isn't that a fundamental contradiction? Hinton replies, the critical decision regarding the process was made in Washington.

38:02 early on. We decided that we would not insist on being part of the negotiations, that we would let the Mexicans and the Venezuelans and the Colombians take the lead. They own all of them, by the way, at this point, and that we support them. We have supported them to the extent that we can. Now, no matter what you think of the Contras, one thing that's reasonably certain

38:31 is it had not been for the Contras and the pressure that comes from them, it's highly unlikely the Sandinistas would have ever gone as far as they have in the process of negotiations. Well, no shit, Sherlock. You're slaughtering Nicaraguans all over the country. So anyway, this article goes on and we'll get this posted over on X when we get done.

39:02 I'm just, I'm flabbergasted. And again, it is so important to go back in history once we know what the real history is and compare what these bastards were saying to the media and the media reporting and what was actually going on behind the scenes. Because the news flash for today is it's the exact same thing.

39:31 They are lying to your face and doing something 180 degrees different while they're lying to you. And we've shown you time after time after time. So I do want to plug the need to, a Southern girl just reminded me about Speaker Johnson. Please make sure.

40:04 that y'all go to my ex feed and find the post about contacting him about basically he has the ability to negate the January 6th committee. And when he does that and there's another guy who's he's got a long name, weird name.

40:29 that runs the committee, they can actually basically null and void the January 6th committee, which basically removes the lawsuit that they put against Bannon and Peter Navarro. So I ask everybody to flood their, his inbox. If you wouldn't mind doing that both on true social and on X, I appreciate it.

40:59 And as usual, please go to the thumbs up and give us a thumbs up. If you're not following us, please do so. Dang, Bridget, did you see that we're already in Liza? We're already over 3,000. I'm shocked. I'm absolutely shocked. Thank you all for being here. Thank you all for watching our videos and supporting us. I really appreciate it.

41:25 There will be more later. We're going to do the X in about 45 minutes. Live spaces on the rest of Italy. Hopefully we can conclude that and we'll start off the next week with a new country. Again, thanks to everybody for being here. Appreciate it.

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School of the Americas located_in Fort Benning documented ▶ 2:32

“and lay missionary Gene Donovan. Of the five officers later found responsible for the rape and murder of... All right, hold on. I'm getting the feedback here. ...were graduates of the United States Ar…”

Roberto D'Aubuisson carried_out_attack Óscar Romero documented ▶ 5:26

“I ask you, I order you, in the name of God, stop the repression. While celebrating Mass the next day, Archbishop Romero was assassinated. A number of years later, the National Security Archives in Was…”

National Security Archive exposed Operation Condor documented ▶ 5:26

Dean Rusk operated_in Chile host_asserted ▶ 7:32

“that it says that he went to National War College 10 years later, which he must have went as an ambassador because it would have taken him 20 years to get in there if he had stayed in the military. So…”

Dean Rusk operated_in Guatemala host_asserted ▶ 7:32

Dean Rusk operated_in El Salvador host_asserted ▶ 8:36

“And then he moves on to El Salvador, Pakistan, Costa Rica. And he was in Costa Rica during the time Costa Rica is launching the Contras into Nicaragua. Holy freaking shit. And then where does he go? P…”

Dean Rusk operated_in Costa Rica host_asserted ▶ 8:36

Dean Rusk member_of CFR host_asserted ▶ 8:36

Dean Rusk operated_in Panama host_asserted ▶ 8:36

Dean Rusk member_of USAID host_asserted ▶ 9:11

“This is just, this is literally crazy. This network of these people. So also USAID alumni. I think Bridget just sent that to me. Yeah. Career diplomat, five nations. And he got his first appointment a…”

George H.W. Bush appointed Dean Rusk host_asserted ▶ 9:45

“Oh my gosh, this is just crazy. And it was George H.W. Bush that sent him to Panama because of the whole drug scenario. And he was there when Noriega was taken out of power. That's just crazy. That's …”

Robert White involved_in Operation Condor host_asserted ▶ 10:22

“And he succeeded the guy by the name of Robert White, who was El Salvador before that. And this one's very important because this is the guy that I had looked up for. He was the deputy U.S. permanent …”

Dean Rusk succeeded Robert White host_asserted ▶ 10:22

Robert White involved_in Orlando Letelier host_asserted ▶ 11:22

“White was involved in the assassination of Orlando Letitier and Ronnie Moffitt on the streets of Washington, D.C. with the bomb explosion. All having to do. And he moved from Paraguay and assassinatin…”

Robert White involved_in Ronnie Moffitt host_asserted ▶ 11:22

Dean Rusk accused_by El Salvador host_asserted ▶ 11:51

“El Salvadorian president of being a CIA asset. Okay, so you got it? All right, I'm going to go ahead and start that back up. And it discusses a meeting during which Roberto de Buisson plans the murder…”

Roberto D'Aubuisson ordered_assassination_of Óscar Romero documented ▶ 11:51

School of the Americas trained Roberto D'Aubuisson documented ▶ 12:20

“Dobison was trained at the School of the Americas. Also trained at the school were two of the three officers directly responsible for the assassination. December 11, 1981, El Mozote, a small village i…”

Atalcatl Battalion carried_out_attack El Mozote Massacre documented ▶ 14:04

“Ten of the 12 officers cited as responsible for the El Mazote massacre were graduates of the School of the Americas. They were members of the Advocato Battalion, a part of the El Salvador Army. Novemb…”

School of the Americas trained Atalcatl Battalion documented ▶ 14:04

Vicki Emmerman exposed School of the Americas documented ▶ 15:27

“Vicki Emmerman matched the names cited in the UN report with names in the United States government document. What I did was I took these officers, all the officers listed in the report, and I took the…”

Hugo Banzer trained School of the Americas documented ▶ 15:52

“were graduates of the School of the Americas. El Salvador is only part of the school's story. In the entry area of one of its main buildings are photographs of those the school honors, its so-called H…”

School of the Americas trained Hugo Banzer documented ▶ 15:52

Manuel Noriega trained School of the Americas documented ▶ 16:17

“Some of the others similarly honored are the former dictators of Honduras, Ecuador, and Argentina, and generals from eight other Latin and Caribbean nations, many cited by human rights groups for invo…”

School of the Americas trained Manuel Noriega documented ▶ 16:17

School of the Americas trained Battalion 316 documented ▶ 16:43

“Four of the five ranking Honduran officers who organized death squads in the 1980s as part of Battalion 316 are graduates. Half of the 250 Colombian officers cited for human rights abuses attended the…”

Battalion 316 member_of School of the Americas documented ▶ 16:43

School of the Americas trained Contras documented ▶ 17:16

“Over 4,000 National Guard troops graduated from the school. Many of them later became known as the Contras, responsible for the deaths of thousands of Nicaraguan peasants in the 1980s. The general in …”

School of the Americas trained Héctor Gramajo documented ▶ 17:49

“General Hector Gramajo of Guatemala was the featured speaker at the school's graduation ceremonies in 1991. Human rights groups claim he is the architect of strategies that legalized military atrociti…”

Héctor Gramajo trained School of the Americas documented ▶ 17:49

Joseph Kennedy Sr. proposed School of the Americas documented ▶ 18:47

“On September 30, 1993, the School of the Americas was debated by Congress for the first time in its history. It happened when an amendment to the Defense Department budget was introduced by Congressma…”

United States government supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted ▶ 37:30

“And their idea of a free and fair election is kind of like what we saw in 2020. He goes on to ask, how can the US government support the initiative and at the same time provide covert military assista…”

Contras targeted_for_regime_change Sandinistas host_asserted ▶ 37:30

United States government funded Contras host_asserted ▶ 38:02

“early on. We decided that we would not insist on being part of the negotiations, that we would let the Mexicans and the Venezuelans and the Colombians take the lead. They own all of them, by the way, …”

Contras carried_out_attack Sandinistas host_asserted ▶ 38:31

“is it had not been for the Contras and the pressure that comes from them, it's highly unlikely the Sandinistas would have ever gone as far as they have in the process of negotiations. Well, no shit, S…”