Inside the dark legacy of US "School of Assassins"

For 62 years, the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, has trained some of the worst human rights abusers in the hemisphere. From Pinochet's soldiers in Chile, D'Aubuisson's death squads in El Salvador, Banzer's minions in Bolivia, Galtieri's operatives in Argentina and Rios Montt's soldiers in Guatemala to the present-day generals responsible for the coup in Honduras and the drug war killings in Colombia, the School of the America has a dark legacy. Renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, the school has graduated 65,000 soldiers from 18 countries. This weekend, tens of thousands of activists will converge at its gates to demand an end to the militarization and the massacres, the human rights violations and the secrecy... and fight to close the School of the Americas.

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[cadu1995]

Why does RUSSIA TODAY have better news or more important unhidden news than the NY Times or CNN or MSNBC?? I trust them more than the lies of american media.

[gringodeltoro1]

RT does it again! THANK YOU!

[dgfat699]

Where do I sign up

[THEendOFJustin]

Dam U.S never reports this crap to it's citizen sometimes I'm ashamed to be an American for all the horrible thing it's done

[toonsie164]

went there. an amazing experience.....

[kakompo]

Pinochet.. They forgot to mention the brutal dictator in the small west african nation of Gambia Yahya Jammeh. He's also a graduate .

[localSickened]

i thought license to kill was only in james bond movies

[edwardsson777]

Remember, just as the video "freedom from conscience -- psychopaths" makes clear, many of the leaders in our government are often psychopathic just by theri very nature.

[claton95]

@cadu1995 because you're an idiot

[benmcfee]

@cadu1995

See, I wouldn't trust any of them, because unbiased News is a nearly impossible thing to achieve. But, the info that RT puts out has consistently proven more reliable than any of those others. I really am sorry to split hairs, and I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but I feel like part of the problem we face, is that too many of us are looking hard for someone to trust: a news source, a politician, a business model, etc, and we get screwed. Politics isn't about trust, but distrust.

[phillipgaley]

@cadu1995 Because NY Times, CNN and MSNBC are controlled from the Kremlin; you can figure that out—can't you?