Someone should let the Domican Republic know:

http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/SimonBolivar/Simon_Bolivar.htm

To be fair, the courses are not strictly guided towards teaching soldiers how to subvert their own regimes. It is has a wider range of purposes:

http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/academics_courses_list.htm

Having said that, what each soldier does with the training received cannot be entirely blamed on the school itself. Politics are involved in choosing students to attend and those typically follow foreign political goals which are what need to be examined. Also, many times international students attend and once the training is completed, return home to 'switch sides.' Having spent some time in Latin America, I can attest that this happens on a regular basis. People switch 'sides' in Latin America like turning on the hot/cold taps on a faucet. You know this to be true.



>David,
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>>You are kidding, right? Nothing changes in that country?
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>Sorry, but unfortunatelly I'm not kidding. Below I listed some events that think help to support my statement:
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>1946-U.S. opens School of the Americas in Panama. Now located in Fort Benning, Georgia, the "School of the Assassins" has taught over 60,000 personnel from some of the worlds most brutal regimes how to subvert the truth, to muzzle union leaders, activist clergy, and journalists, and to make war on their own people.
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>1951-CIA is involved in a coup to overthrow nationalist primeminister Dr. Muhammed Mossadeq in Iran. Supports Iranian military in massacre of Mossadeq supporters and returns the Shah Reza Pahlevi to power. In 1976, Amnesty International concluded that the Shah's CIA-trained security force, SAVAK, had the worst human rights record on the planet, and that the number and variety of torture techniques the CIA had taught SAVAK were "beyond belief."
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>1963-CIA recruits Iraqi Baath Party (including a young Saddam Hussein) to assasinate the new leader, Abdul-Karim Kassem. After the coup, the CIA gave the Baath a long list of communists and others to liquidate. During the 1980s the CIA would go on to help provide weapons to both Iraq and Iran in a war that would kill over one million people.
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>1973-­After interfering in Chilean elections in 1958 and 1964, the CIA begins a campaign of sabotage and terror after leftist Salvadore Allende is elected president in 1970. In 1973, a CIA supported coup overthrew and assassinated Allende and installed fascist General Pinochet, resulting in thousands of murders over the next two decades. This year former U.S. secretary of state, Henry Kissinger was served an order from a French court to answer for his role in the coup.
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>Till now we can hear the echoes of what the US sponsored in Iran and Iraq (two members of what the US calls the "axis of evil").
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>Fernando