Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military's School of the Americas, served as attachs in FB

[Judi Lynn]

November 13, 2019
Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military’s School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs

Commanders of Bolivia’s military and police helped plot the coup and guaranteed its success. They were previously educated for insurrection in the US government’s notorious School of the Americas and FBI training programs.

By Jeb Sprague

The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country’s elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10.

Just prior to Morales’ resignation, the commander of Bolivia’s armed forces Williams Kaliman “suggested” that the president step down. A day earlier, sectors of the country’s police force had rebelled.

Though Kaliman appears to have feigned loyalty to Morales over the years, his true colors showed as soon as the moment of opportunity arrived. He was not only an actor in the coup, he had his own history in Washington, where he had briefly served as the military attaché of Bolivia’s embassy in the US capital.

More:
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/11/13/bolivian-coup-plotters-school-of-the-americas-fbi-police-programs/

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[lostnfound]

1. Interesting and unsurprising. But wasn't SOA renamed WHISC?

It’s also amazing how the military leaders can easily manage to get visas to come to SOA training but to come be a tourist or visit a friend, forget it.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Even as they renamed it to make it hard to remember, folks still call it "School of Assassins."

You make a good point. Latin American military folks are expected to stay in their own countries to ride herd, keep the lid on any potential movements to put the government in the hands of the people instead of the fascists. They are allowed to flee to live in the U.S., usually South Florida to be close to other racist fascists when they go so far the people try to take back their governments and try to put them on trial for their human rights violantions, their massacres, and torture.











So many deadly people graduated from that US training school, and what they have wrought in the Americas has been devastating to the people in their homelands. Way beyond shameful for everyone involved.