SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS: Guns, Greed and Globalization - Softcover

NELSON-PALLMEYER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570753857 ISBN 13: 9781570753855

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2001

Synopsis

Although the SOA has sought to change its image through a name change and sanitised curriculum, critics continue to call attention to a trail of suffering and death in every Latin American country where its 'graduates' have returned. In this updated and expanded edition, Pallmeyer reviews the case for closing the school and lays bare the case of its proponents. But he also shows how the school has functioned as an instrument of US foreign policy and spells out connections with globalization. Third World debt and the ongoing "war against the poor" around the world. The SOA has trained over 60,000 soldiers from Latin America in commando ops, psychological warfare, and counter-insurgency skills - all paid for by US taxpayers. These soldiers return to their home countries with the 'skills' to defend a socio-economic system that keeps a small elite very wealthy and the vast majority very poor.

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Review:

"It should be in the hands of all who hunger and struggle for justice in our world." -Father Roy Bourgeois, Founder SOA Watch

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1570753857
• ISBN 13: 9781570753855
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 176