The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas by Gill, Lesley
The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas by Gill, Lesley

The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army...
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The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas by Gill, Lesley

The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

BD$66.36
The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas by Gill, Lesley

The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

BD$66.36
Author: Lesley Gill
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since it was founded in 1946. So widely documented is the participation of the School's graduates in torture, murder, and political repression throughout Latin America that in 2001 the School officially changed its name to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Lesley Gill goes behind the fa ade and presents a comprehensive portrait of the School of the Americas. Talking to a retired Colombian general accused by international human rights organizations of terrible crimes, sitting in on classes, accompanying soa students and their families to an upscale local mall, listening to coca farmers in Colombia and Bolivia, conversing with anti-soa activists in the cramped office of the School of the Americas Watch-Gill exposes the School's institutionalization of state-sponsored violence, the havoc it has wrought in Latin America, and the strategies used by activists seeking to curtail it.

Based on her unprecedented level of access to the School of the Americas, Gill describes the School's mission and training methods and reveals how its students, alumni, and officers perceive themselves in relation to the dirty wars that have raged across Latin America. Assessing the School's role in U.S. empire-building, she shows how Latin America's brightest and most ambitious military officers are indoctrinated into a stark good-versus-evil worldview, seduced by consumer society and the "American dream," and enlisted as proxies in Washington's war against drugs and "subversion."



Author: Lesley Gill
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 09/13/2004
Pages: 281
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780822333920


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2005 pg. 1895
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2005 pg. 18 - Strongly Recommended
Publishers Weekly 06/28/2004 pg. 39

About the Author

Lesley Gill is Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair, Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State; Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia; and Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia.


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