Trained for Pain: Get your Torture Degree from School of Americas

It's been 30 years since Colombian soldiers kidnapped, beat, tortured, starved and electro-shocked Hector Aristizabal — but it's a memory he lives with everyday. Aristizabal said the Colombian military held and tortured him for ten days, all for having a "subversive book." "Few people have survived torture in Colombia, so I am very lucky to tell this story. Most people get tortured for ten days, that's the standard, and then they get shot and killed," said Aristizabal. "Many have been disappeared — more than 80,000." Aristizabal says that the Colombian soldiers who tortured him and later killed his brother were trained right here on American soil, at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. Retired Army Major Joseph Blair was an instructor at the School of the Americas, which has since been renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. "I was very much in favor of the School of the Americas during the Cold War era," Major Blair said. But Major Blair said he was horrified to learn of what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own countries. "The classified manuals that the Army School of the Americas used had the words interrogate, extortion, assassinate, neutralize — in common layman's terms, it all equates to torture," Blair said. Graduates from the School of the Americas have been implicated in massacres and torture throughout the hemisphere — including the murder of six Jesuit priests and four American churchwomen in El Salvador.
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[comradebrezhnev]

Torture -- one of the few things left that is still 'Made in the USA.'

[deathofisrael]

terrorizing people is all the u.s. government knows !

[radioahole]

Republicans block every bill because Obama is destroying this country you cunt.

[cdmia]

Transperancy hidden, manuels in spanish along with an excuse of no one to translate? More politics of playing dumb when questioned. This has to stop, I teach my own children to be more accountable.

[ahotguy8]

Well, if your policy is to use torture to spread fear into the heart of a rebel province, why not train your soldiers to do it well?

Tales of captured rebel being beaten to death only gets you that far, but rumors of immoral, dark tortures, that probe the victims sexuality to cause extreme humilation as well as pain, will get the imagination of potientiel rebels spinning!

[Kujo226]

Everyone knows this and shit quite similar to this that america does. Only redneck americans denies them. For covering up your racist and genocidal politics, you only accuse other countries all around the world. So everyone will forget Vietnam, Iraq, Libya etc. Even usame bin laden was trained by Cia. What can you expect from a country who assasinates his own president (jfk)

[nipplemaster4muscle]

yeah. Who would Jesus torture?

[marimbadearco]

The School of the Americas got renamed, cause its brand was outed for the bloody trainers of torture that they are.

And now RT: how about Mr. Aleksei Navalny? the man who calls out corruption in Russia? and is in jail right now?

Here it is folks:

RT gets it right on repression by the US, especially in Latin America.

but The New York Times is more trustworthy and correct on corruption and repression in Russia.

[Carlo Bari]

Republicans block every bill the President creates to support new jobs. Republicans are deliberately crushing the middle class. Without jobs, starving, loosing their homes and any prospect of education the only jobs left available will be in the military. With the masses being forced to join the military so they wont starve the Republicans can pursue expanded global war and torture as soon as they regain power. Republicans have admitted they are poised to enter Iran. Stop Republicans.

[12TabulaRasa12]

nice

[cutandshoottx]

like the kgb dont Torture one side story

[Antekdzi1]

propaganda, fuck this bull shit