![]() ![]() provided supplies and funding for the coup. The coup had been anticipated-and worked for-by the U.S. The coup gave rise to two decades of a murderous and brutal military dictatorship and atrocities that led to the disappearance and death of close to 1,000 political opponents, and the systematic torture of over 30,000 more. ![]() THE CRIME: In 1964, a section of the Brazilian military carried out a coup that overthrew Brazilian President João Goulart. A former political prisoner in Paraguay described how a section of these manuals gives “interrogators” instructions on “how to keep electric shock victims alive and responsive” and “recommends dousing the victims’ heads and bodies with salt water, and includes a sketch showing how this ‘treatment’ should be carried out.” Hundreds of thousands of people in Latin America have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced to flee their homes and become refugees by armies and death squads led by military officers trained at the SOA. Army manuals used at the SOA have detailed torture techniques and advocated extortion, blackmail, and the targeting of civilian populations. The school’s curriculum includes sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence, and interrogation tactics-including the use of torture, rape, disappearances, assassinations, and mass killings.ĬIA and U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (SOA) has trained military officers from countries all over Latin America. ![]()
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