Friday, December 03, 2004
Humanitarian intervention. posted by Richard Seymour
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (Whisc, or, Whinsec) is a made-over version of the School of the Americas, which has been training Latin American military and police recruits in the techniques of putsch and modern dictatorship since 1946. If you want details see here .What is of some interest now is the emerging pattern in 'student' intake for the regime. The bulk of students have always been military, and they have always come from countries in Central and Southern America where trouble is either brewing, or under way, or being repressed under some well-trimmed iron heel. Here is a pair of tables showing which countries have supplied students to the SOA & Whisc since 1996. Note Colombia and Bolivia; the former, a corrupt puppet democracy using far right paramilitaries in a war against peasants and trade unionists, the latter a puppet democracy which was unable to impose a deeply unfair water privatisation scheme on its people because of popular revolt. The messenger pigeons are screeching 'coup'.