{"id":9117,"date":"2015-12-11T06:10:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T11:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=9117"},"modified":"2015-12-06T16:39:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T21:39:20","slug":"the-empire-files-us-government-training-for-south-american-dictators-and-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=9117","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Files &#8211; US Government Training South American Dictators And Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 22, thousands gathered at the gates of Fort Benning, GA at the 25th annual protest of the School of the Americas to memorialize the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives at the hands of the U.S. Empire\u2019s brutally repressive juntas it used to rule Latin America by force.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The dictators and death squad leaders, who committed acts of genocide, were trained within the gates of Fort Benning, at the School of the Americas \u2013 otherwise known as the \u201cSchool Of Assassins.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GUtumGk0E6Q\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Abby Martin investigates this notorious school that is largely hidden from the American public; it\u2019s crimes around the world, it\u2019s star graduates, why it exists and the movement to shut it down.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Featuring interviews with School Of the Americas Watch founder Father Roy Bourgeois and other SOAW leaders. [Follow @SOAWatch and visit SOAW.org for more info on the movement]<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW \/\/ @EmpireFiles \/\/ @AbbyMartin \/\/ @telesurenglish<br \/>\nLIKE \/\/ facebook.com\/theempirefiles<\/p>\n<p>Music by Fluorescent Grey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 22, thousands gathered at the gates of Fort Benning, GA at the 25th annual protest of the School of the Americas to memorialize the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives at the hands of the U.S. Empire\u2019s brutally repressive juntas it used to rule Latin America by force.\u00a0 The dictators and death squad leaders, who committed acts of genocide, were trained within the gates of Fort Benning, at the School of the Americas \u2013 otherwise known as the \u201cSchool Of Assassins.\u201d\u00a0 Abby Martin investigates this notorious school that is largely hidden from the American public; it\u2019s crimes around the world, it\u2019s star graduates, why it exists and the movement to shut it down.\u00a0 Featuring interviews with School Of the Americas Watch founder Father Roy Bourgeois and other SOAW leaders. [Follow @SOAWatch and visit SOAW.org for more info on the movement] FOLLOW \/\/ @EmpireFiles \/\/ @AbbyMartin \/\/ @telesurenglish LIKE \/\/ facebook.com\/theempirefiles Music by Fluorescent Grey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,684],"tags":[799,790,84,835],"class_list":["post-9117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-activism-centralandsouthamerica","tag-abby-martin","tag-empire-files","tag-feature","tag-school-of-the-americas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9120,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions\/9120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}