School of the Americas: Training Torturers & Secret Police for US-Backed Dictators Since 1946

This article was originally published in December 2015. For the past 69 years, many of the most notorious U.S.-backed South American dictators, along with their secret police and torturers, have learned their dark arts from a secretive American training facility. Located in Fort Benning, Georgia, the facility changed its name from “School of the Americas” … Continue reading School of the Americas: Training Torturers & Secret Police for US-Backed Dictators Since 1946