Journalist John Pilger questions Duane Clarridge, former head of the CIA's Latin America division during the US terrorist war in Central America. [video=youtube_share;SNgCyDsvi84]http://youtu.be/SNgCyDsvi84[/video] A study on U.S. military assistance to Latin American governments was published in 1981 by the leading academic specialist on human rights in the Americas, Lars Schoultz, which found that: Schoultz also notes: Obviously, the clauses didnt have any teeth. Another important study supporting Lars Schoultz's findings by Human Rights Watch's Michael Klare and Cynthia Arnson concluded that: Economist Edward S. Herman also found the same correlation but he also carried out a second study asking how U.S. aid correlates with the investment climate. The conclusion is that: Herman's study was confirmed by General Robert Porter, Commander in Chief, United States Southern Command, who told Congress that: Under US government AID programs (USAID), "public safety projects" organized, trained, armed, financed and advised local police forces in Latin America as standing death squads. The US State Department instructed it's security forces on their role, stating that:
In 1986, The Reagan administration made the incredible statement that: In contrast, the Economist reported in 1989: Lord Chitnis, spokesman for the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group which observed the 1984 elections noted that: These elections, he concluded, were held in: Historian Walter LaFeber observes:
A study of US foreign police aid by Latin Americanist Martha K. Huggins published in 1998 concludes: And if you look at the record, this is in fact what you find. You dont have to look that hard.
