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Part Two: The Deadliest School in History

Behind the Bastards

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The School of the Americas

In 1984, the School of the Americas left Panama. It was reestablished in Columbus at a Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia. Students would all try to buy American trucks so that they could take them back home with them as like a stanna symbol. A Bolivian named Juan Ricardo later claimed that he was taught how to tie up prisoners of war and how to torture them.

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