THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
Lesley Gill, . . Duke Univ., $19.95 (281pp) ISBN 978-0-8223-3392-0
The U.S. Army maintains a center at Fort Benning, Ga., formerly known as the School of the Americas. It has reportedly trained 60,000 South and Central American military elites since the end of WWII and reportedly counts among its graduates former dictators Manuel Noriega of Panama and Leopoldo Galtieri of Argentina. Curricular materials involving torture techniques were found at the school in the early '90s, resulting in a small scandal that apparently led to a name change (to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) and a fight over the school's existence that continues. Though she doesn't catch anyone learning about the various uses of nudity and black hoods, American University anthropologist Gill (
Reviewed on: 06/28/2004
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 304 pages - 978-0-8223-3382-1
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