[News] Bolivia Opens New 'Anti-Imperialist' Military Academy

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  Bolivia Opens New 'Anti-Imperialist' Military Academy

August 17, 2016

Bolivian President Evo Morales opened Wednesday a new regional military 
defense school – a kind of anti-School of the Americas – which will 
offer courses on a wide range of subjects meant to counter the U.S. 
imperialist presence in the developing world, including the Theory of 
Imperialism, Geopolitics of Natural Resources and Bolivian Social 
Structures.

The new school, which will be based in the city of Santa Cruz in eastern 
Bolivia, and named after former President Juan Jose Torres. will have an 
initial enrollment of 100 students. Morales, a socialist and Bolivia's 
first Indigenous president, has been a strong critic of US imperialism 
in Latin America, and throughout the world.

“Empires," he said at Wednesday's ceremony, "exhibit cultural racism 
because they do not believe in the popular sovereignty of the people.”

The Bolivian military academy is intended as a direct rebuttal to the 
infamous U.S. School of the Americas in Georgia , which provides 
military training to U.S. allies in Latin America, and whose graduates 
include a "Who's Who" of Cold War era military figures who carried out 
some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America.

“The School of Anti-Imperialism is a school that seeks to preserve life, 
unlike the School of the Americas, which brainwashed military officers 
into believing that the enemy was our people. It became lawful, proper 
and normal to kill people,” Bolivian Defense Minister Reymi Ferreira 
told the state-run media outlet ABI.

Ferreira went on to add that the training military training school seeks 
to promote an "anti-imperialist doctrine" that will help soldiers 
identify key threats to the country’s national sovereignty.

The school also seeks to train members of the military so that they rise 
up the ranks of coutry's armed forces, Ferreria stated.

Since his election in 2005, Bolivian President Evo Morales has 
implemented several initiatives in efforts to defend domestic and 
regional sovereignty.

Venezuela and Nicaragua’s Defense Ministers Vladimir Padrino López and 
Martha Ruiz Sevilla are also expected to be in attendance during 
Wednesday’s inaugural ceremony.

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