The US 'terror' training camp you've never heard of

[Judi Lynn]

The US 'terror' training camp you've never heard of


Mehdi Hasan on how the US Defence Department's School of the Americas has exported violence and coups.

29 Oct 2016 11:13 GMT




Panama's Manuel Noriega. Chile's Manuel Contreras. Members of Mexico's Zetas cartel. What do they all have in common?

They all graduated from the US Defence Department's School of the Americas, an "anti-communist" counterinsurgency programme to train Latin American military personnel.

After the "school" was kicked out of Panama, it relocated to the United States. It even, eventually, changed its name - but kept everything else.

Is it time to close down this so-called "terrorist" training camp?

In this week's Reality Check, Mehdi Hasan digs into the past of the US-run school that has led to the destabilisation of many Latin American countries.

- video at link -

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2016/10/terror-training-camp-heard-161028120752370.html

[niyad]

1. actually, many of us have heard of it, have even protested it.

[SamKnause]

2. Unfortunately, I have heard about it.

I have told others as well.

[forest444]

3. Now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)

Talk about euphemisms.

[Nitram]

4. I have long know about the school.

Designed as an "anti-terroism training" camp, it has resulted in the opposite. It is interesting how many CIA-sponsored projects end up creating a worse problem than the one they were trying to solve.