The Marines, called 'the navy' by the local population, took control of Huanta. One of the first measures the Navy applied in Huanta was to group the peasants into villages and organize them into Civil Defense Committees, in the style of the 'strategic villages' organized by the US Army in …
In 1996, following demands from human rights organizations, the U.S. intelligence oversight committee released a report on Guatemala mentioning the use of U.S. Army manuals at the School of the Americas. Representative Joseph Kennedy called for their full declassification. The CIA manuals were declassified after the Baltimore Sun threatened legal …
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