U.S. military training directly enabled Latin American death squads

Evidence

It was learned that most of the Salvadoran military officers implicated in the 1989 murder of six priests had been trained at the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. Officers connected to death squads in many other Latin American countries were also found to have been trained at the same school, The U. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 57

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing how widely documented the School of the Americas death-squad connection is, and whether the training was intentional or incidental.
• SEED: An angle on how nominally legitimate institutions can become factories for atrocity — the SOA as case study in complicity-by-training.