The Cold War

Currently Playing: How The United States Trained Latin American Dictators

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at the School of the Americas, a US-sponsored training facility meant to promote and foster professional military conduct in Latin American militaries but secretly trained students in hash techniques that were then used against their own countrymen. 1950s Hollywood and the Military Industrial Complex: https://youtu.be/OVJ6M2XoFiM Birth of the Military Industrial Complex: https://youtu.be/8glmBbBENlk America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY How the American Political Parties Switched Their Ideologies https://youtu.be/SdcreXEWzG0 How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #UnitedStates #Schooloftheamericas #SOA #OpCondor #Panama #Guatemala #ElSalvador #Junta #Guerillas **SOURCES** Kim Burger, "LATIN AMERICAN MILITARIES CAN GO ELSEWHERE FOR TACTICAL TRAINING", Inside the Army, vo 12, no 22, June 5, 2000, p 5-7. Anthony Gregory, "Understanding the US Torture State", The Independent Review, vol 17, No 2, Fall 2012, p 291-296 J. Patrice McSherry. Tracking the Origins of a State Terror Network: Operation Condor” Latin American Perspectives, vol 29, No. 1 (Jan 2002), p 38-60 R. W. Reising and Scott Baird, "American" Education: The International School of the Americas", The Clearing House, vol 68, No. 4, Mar-Apr 1995, p. 196. Jeremy Singer, "HOUSE MEMBERS ASK CLINTON TO CLOSE ARMY SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS", Inside the Army, vol 11, no. 17, May 3, 1999, p. 17-18. Priest, Dana. “U.S. Instructed Latins on Executions, Torture; Manuals Used 1982‑91, Pentagon Reveals.” The Washington Post, September 21, 1996. Richard F. Grimmett & Mark P. Sullivan, "United States Army School of the Americas: Background and Congressional Concerns", https://irp.fas.org/crs/soa.htm U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO Report NSIAD‑96‑178: [Title of Report]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 1996. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS‑NSIAD‑96‑178/html/GAOREPORTS‑NSIAD‑96‑178.htm. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/costa-rica-quits-soa/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/apr/06/usa.argentina https://www.ncronline.org/news/world/honduran-coup-leader-two-time-soa-graduate https://www.army.mil/article/170229/whinsec_opens_center_for_human_rights https://hollynear.com/school-of-the-americas-protest/ https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RS20892.html https://ras-nsa.ca/rethinking-the-impact-of-us-military-training-on-coups https://www.lawg.org/declassified-army-and-cia-manuals/ https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/archive/news/dodmans.htm