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Part One: The Deadliest School in History

Behind the Bastards

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The Ground School of the Americas

In 1963 they changed the name of the ground school to the school of the Americas. This new name reflected its expanded role as a tool in the hands of the US government. In 1967 Che Guevara launches a guerrilla campaign in southeast Bolivia and so it was US trained soldiers who captured him shortly after his arrival in the country. Once he was captured the US forces like who were kind of actually embedded there actually wanted him at least a lot most of the stories you'll hear.

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