{"id":292742,"date":"2016-08-17T17:49:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T21:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=292742"},"modified":"2021-01-16T17:54:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T22:54:01","slug":"bolivia-opens-anti-imperialist-school-to-counter-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/bolivia-opens-anti-imperialist-school-to-counter-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia opens \u2018anti-imperialist\u2019 school to counter US"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Excellent! All countries should do the same!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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The Bolivian President Evo Morales has opened a new military defence academy, which he says will offer courses to counter the influence of the United States in the developing world.<\/p>\n

Mr Morales said its aim included the study of imperialism and its consequences.<\/p>\n

He said it would counteract the Army School of the Americas in Georgia which trained US allies during the Cold War.<\/p>\n

Some of its graduates committed serious human rights abuses in the region.<\/p>\n

The new academy is based in the city of Santa Cruz in eastern Bolivia and will initially take 100 recruits.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Bolivia’s Defence Minister Reymi Ferreira said: “The School of Anti-Imperialism is a school that seeks to preserve life, unlike the School of the Americas, which brainwashed military officers into believing that the enemy was our people.”<\/p>\n

He said the training centre would seek to help soldiers identify key threats to the country’s national sovereignty.<\/p>\n

Since his inauguration in 2005, President Morales has had a relationship with the US which has been at times very tense.<\/p>\n

In 2008 he expelled the US ambassador and counter-narcotics agent and more recently he accused Washington of encouraging “congressional coups” such as the impending impeachment trial of suspended President Dilma Rousseff in Brazil.<\/p>\n

He has also accused the US of promoting global terrorism through military interventions, citing the rise of the Islamic State group as an example.<\/p>\n

In Latin America, some officers trained at the US-based School of the Americas went on to commit some of the worse human rights abuses in the region.<\/p>\n

They include two of the Argentinean military officers who led the junta in the late 1970s. Human rights organisations say the military government killed around 30,000 left-wing opponents during their administration.<\/p>\n

The former Guatemalan President, General Efraim Rios Montt, also trained at the School of the Americas in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

Two Truth Commissions documented widespread human rights abuses by his regime including rape, torture, executions and acts of genocide against the populace, including indigenous population through a scorched earth campaign.<\/p>\n

In 2000, the academy at Fort Benning, Georgia, was renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-37114191<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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