My Take | US military spreads global chaos with training programmes
- Washington has trained many of the world’s worst military coup plotters over the decades just as it did with seven of those now accused of taking part in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise
After the exposé, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby was forced to acknowledge the connection. I quote from the official transcript of the media conference from his office on July 22.
“Thus far, we’ve identified seven individuals who were former members of the Colombian military that had received some sort of training and education, US-funded and provided education and training,” he said in reply to a reporter’s question.
“Some of it was under State Department funding and authorities, and some of … some of the training was under DOD, Department of Defence-funded training. But to give an example of some of them that we’ve identified … cadet leadership development, counter-drug operations, non-commissioned officer professional development, small-unit leadership training, human rights training, emergency medical training, some helicopter maintenance training and those kinds of things – all things that are very common.”
We find a robust relationship between US training of foreign militaries and military-backed coup attempts
He insisted there was no connection between the suspects’ US training and what they were now accused of.