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Dictatorships supported by the USA

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Throughout its existence, particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries, the United States government has provided funding for, and supplied weapons to, a large number of dictatorships around the world. In some cases, this support has been intended to protect and expand U.S. economic interests, and bring U.S. mixed economic policies (which lean closest to free-market capitalism) to countries under control of state capitalist or socialist economic systems.


Dictators and regimes[edit]

School of the Americas[edit]

Main article: School of the Americas

(renamed Wikipedia:Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001 by the Wikipedia:National Defense Authorization Act)
Between 1946 and 2001, the School of the Americas trained more than 61,000 Latin American soldiers and policemen. Some of them became notorious for human rights violations, including dictators Leopoldo Galtieri, Efraín Ríos Montt, Manuel Noriega, Bolivia's Hugo Banzer, some of Augusto Pinochet's officers,[4][5] members of the Atlacatl Battalion of El Salvador who carried out the El Mozote massacre of 1981, and the founders of Los Zetas, a drug cartel formerly affiliated with the Gulf Cartel.[6][7] Critics of the school argue that the education encouraged such internationally recognized human rights violating practices and that the WHINSEC is merely a new name for exactly the same practices. This is denied by the SOA/WHINSEC and its supporters, who claim they now emphasize democracy and human rights.[8][9] Neither of these arguments exclude the creation of a New School of the Americas under a different name, with the original goal.

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References[edit]

  1. Jump up ↑ NSA archive
  2. Jump up ↑ Frontline
  3. Jump up ↑ Montclair
  4. Jump up ↑ Notorious Graduates. School of the Americas Watch. URL accessed on November 16, 2005.
  5. Jump up ↑ Davies, George ‘I’ll take the CIA torture suite’, The First Post, dated August 16, 2006, accessed August 14, 2006.
  6. Jump up ↑ Thompson, Ginger Mexico Fears Its Drug Traffickers Get Help From Guatemalans. New York Times. URL accessed on 2008-04-27.
  7. Jump up ↑ Laurie Freeman, State of Siege: Drug-Related Violence and Corruption in Mexico, Washington Office on Latin America, June 2006.
  8. Jump up ↑ Bay Area Protesters Sentenced in Georgia CommonDreams.org.
  9. Jump up ↑ FAQ. Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
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