List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: The Teflon Assassin xiii
Introduction: The Military, Political Violence, and Impunity 1
1. Georgia Not on Their Minds 23
2. De-Mining Humanitarianism 43
3. Foot Soldiers of the U.S. Empire 59
4. Pathways to Power 90
5. Strategic Alliances 110
6. Human Wrongs and Rights 137
7. Disordering the Andes 163
8. Targeting the " School of Assassins" 198
Conclusion: The School of the Americas 233
Notes 245
References Cited 259
Index 271
Transnational ethnography and history of the School of the Americas, analyzing the military, peasant, and activist cultures that are linked by this institution.
Lesley Gill is Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair, Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State; Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia; and Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia.
"Lesley Gill has produced an in-depth expose of the militaristic mentality, socio-ethnic tensions, and outrageous atrocities of the empire's Praetorian Guard. Insightful and richly researched, a work of superior quality."--Michael Parenti, author of The Terrorism Trap and The Assassination of Julius Caesar "Lesley Gill's study of the premier military training operation in the Americas is a treasure trove of histories that will provoke a long overdue debate about the values and limits of U.S. engagement in the region."--Robin Kirk, author of More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia "Gill was able to examine the school's folkways and rhetoric, thanks to glasnost-like levels of administrative cooperation. Lessons in thinking in terms of how to 'kill and maim' opposition and to 'dehumanize' those who persist. Gill then traces the paths of various graduates of the school and links their activities directly to the torture and deat h of 'Latin American peasants, workers, students [and] human rights activists'-i.e., 'opposition.' " Publishers Weekly
"Lesley Gill has produced an in-depth expose of the militaristic mentality, socio-ethnic tensions, and outrageous atrocities of the empire's Praetorian Guard. Insightful and richly researched, a work of superior quality."--Michael Parenti, author of The Terrorism Trap and The Assassination of Julius Caesar "Lesley Gill's study of the premier military training operation in the Americas is a treasure trove of histories that will provoke a long overdue debate about the values and limits of U.S. engagement in the region."--Robin Kirk, author of More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia "Gill was able to examine the school's folkways and rhetoric, thanks to glasnost-like levels of administrative cooperation. Lessons in thinking in terms of how to 'kill and maim' opposition and to 'dehumanize' those who persist. Gill then traces the paths of various graduates of the school and links their activities directly to the torture and deat h of 'Latin American peasants, workers, students [and] human rights activists'-i.e., 'opposition.' " Publishers Weekly
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