Robert Harding
Graduate School of International Studies
University of Miami
On Thu, 13 Apr 1995 ronald_newton@sfu.ca wrote:
> Estimados neteros,
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> The bodies keep turning up, don't they? The latest on the School of
> the Americas is found in Allan Nairn's article, "CIA Death Squad," in the
> April l7 issue of THE NATION, pp. 511-513. (For my money THE NATION is the
> best of the few remaining US journals of dissent. It's been needling the
> powerful since l865.) Nairn's article has chiefly to do with the CIA, of
> course -- who could doubt that The Company and its UCLAs (Unilaterally
> Controlled Latino Assets) would be found where the slime was thickest? --
> but there's abundant material on the crossover between CIA and SOA.
>
> An interesting sidebar by David Corn has to do with Robert
> Torricelli, who hitherto has usually been seen peeking from the pocket of
> Mas Canosa. Torricelli deserves credit for raising hell about the murder of
> two Americans in Guatemala (where coincidentally ll0,000 non-Americans have
> ALSO been dispatched in the name of Democracy and Western Values). But Corn
> points out that in l993 Torricelli strongly OPPOSED defunding of the SOA.
> Nor has Torricelli mentioned that his prime villain in the latest scandal,
> Colonel Julio Roberto Alpiriz, murderer of two Americans (that we know of)
> did two tours in the SOA, human rights sensitivity training and all.
>
> Read it, neteros.
>
> Fraternalmente,
>
> Ron Newton
> Dept. of History
> Simon Fraser University
> Burnaby, BC CANADA
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