Disturbing the peace : the story of Roy Bourgeois and the movement to close the School of the Americas

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LibraryThing member johnjmeyer

A very well written biography of Father Roy Bourgeois and his spiritual journey from Cajun football hero in Louisiana bayou country to founder and leader of the School of the Americas Watch, an organization that shares his dedication to exposing the role of the United States military supported by

U.S. taxpayers in the training of Latin American troops to support the oligarchical elites in Latin America through counterinsurgency techniques (including torture, terrorism against unions, press, and other civil institutions). In a very readable format that helps us identify with Father Bourgeois, we see him grow from a naval officer to working with orphans in Vietnam to choosing to pursue a career as a Maryknoll priest serving the poorest of the poor in Latin America. We learn with Bourgeois of the atrocities committed by US trained military and paramilitary forces and grow in anger with him as he finds his work in countering nonviolently but vehemently the School of the Americas and educating US citizens and the U.S. Congress about the crimes against humanity committed by its graduates.

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