Morning Star.png Morales Opens Anti-Imperialist Military School James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 19 August 2016 Bolivian President Evo Morales has opened a new "anti-imperialist" military academy intended as the antithesis of the infamous US School of the Americas. Venezuela and Nicaragua's defence ministers attended Wednesday's opening ceremony in the eastern city of Santa Cruz. "Empires exhibit cultural racism because they do not believe in the popular sovereignty of the people," Mr Morales said. Courses will incude the Theory of Imperialism, Geopolitics of Imperialism, Geopolitics of Natural Resources and Bolivian Social Structures and graduates will receive the title General Captain of the Armed Forces. Also present was Argentinian sociologist Atilio Boron, a "first-class academic" who will teach the first module at the military school. The new school is named after former president Juan Jose Torres and will enrol 100 students in its first year. General Torres ran a leftist military regime from 1970 to 1971 when he was deposed in a bloody coup. He was later kidnapped and murdered in Argentina in 1976 as part of the CIA-backed Operation Condor wave of political killings across the continent. The school is intended as a counter to the School of the Americas, now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Co-operation, in the US state of Georgia which has trained a who's who of right-wing death squad leaders since 1946. Bolivian Defence Minister Reymi Ferreira said the academy would follow an "anti-imperialist doctrine" to help soldiers identify key threats to the country's national sovereignty. "The School of Anti-Imperialism is a school that seeks to preserve life, unlike the School of the Americas, which brainwashed military officers into believing that the enemy was our people," he said. "It became lawful, proper and normal to kill people." Mr Ferreira countered opposition figures who had called the institution's founding an "excess" on the government's part. "As they are accustomed to live on their knees, they forever have the perspective of traitors who consider themselves inferior and subordinate to other powers," he said. "It upsets and hurts them, it is too much light for their eyes that we might be sovereign and independent." [email protected] From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-5fbe-Morales-opens-anti-imperialist-mil itary-school#.V7aJefl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13985 (20160819) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d1f9d5%2425c2d1d0%2471487570%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
