URUGUAY:
HOW WE CRUSH NONVIOLENT PROTEST AGAINST A CORRUPT REGIME, USING THE SOA TO UNDERMINE OUR OWN LAWS
URUGUAY:
HOW WE CRUSH NONVIOLENT PROTEST AGAINST A CORRUPT REGIME, USING THE SOA TO UNDERMINE OUR OWN LAWS
(1) The Uruguayan military institutes a totalitarian regime far beyond anything in Eastern Europe.
(2) This is done with full US support, including torture-training from the SOA.
During the 1960s, Uruguay is in the midst of a long-running economic decline under the watch of US corporations and a US-supported anti-democratic regime, with widespread poverty, labor strikes, student demonstrations, and militant street violence, and the largely nonviolent Tupamoros, "[p]erhaps the cleverest, most resourceful and most sophisticated urban guerrillas the world had ever seen," with widespread public support and secret admirers in key positions in the government, banks, universities, professions, military, and police.
"[T]he Tupamoros normally avoid bloodshed when possible. They try instead to create embarrassment for the Government and general disorder." � New York Times, 8/1/70 [E.g., publishing raided files of big private corporations to expose corruption and deceit, or publishing transcripts of trials in "People�s Court" of temporarily kidnapped corrupt public officials.]
The US-armed and US-trained military crush the Tupamoros in 1972, institute 11 years of repressive dictatorship, with "the largest number of political prisoners per capita in the world [about 60,000 people, roughly 2 percent of the population], � each one of them was tortured." � The Guardian (London) 10/19/84, Human Rights Quarterly, 5/82.
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People were in prison so that prices could be free."
� dissident Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano
The American torture-training role �
"The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect." � Dan Mitrione, head of the US "Office of Public Safety" in Montevideo, 1969-1970
"The violent methods [of "routine torture"] which were beginning to be employed [by "US advisers, and in particular Mitrione"] caused an escalation in Tupamaro activity. Before then their attitude showed that they would use violence only as a last resort." Alejandro Otero, Uruguayan Chief of Police Intelligence, CIA agent, demoted for his testimony
"One of the pieces of equipment that was found useful was a wire so very thin that it could be fitted into the mouth between the teeth and by pressing the gum increase the electrical charge. And it was through the diplomatic pouch that Mitrione got some of the equipment he needed for interrogations, including these fine wires." � New York Times� A.J. Langguth, 1981 interview
More:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/poli/soa/uruguay.htm
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