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DESCRIPTION: SCREENING FROM NOV 7-20\n\n"Winner of the 2003 Award of Merit in Film at 
 the Latin American Studies Association Film Festival in Dallas, "Hidden in 
 Plain Sight" focuses on the curriculum of the U.S. Army's School of the 
 Americas, located at Fort Benning in Georgia. This school (which changed 
 its name two years ago to the "Western Hemisphere Institute of Security 
 Cooperation") has trained tens of thousands of Latin American army officers 
 and police officers in what is officially described as "counterinsurgency 
 tactics." Among the school's more infamous alumni are Panamanian dictator 
 Manuel Noriega and El Salvador's dictator Roberto D'Aubuisson. Each year, 
 massive demonstrations are held outside of Fort Benning demanding that it 
 cease operations. Yet despite a brutal record of massive human rights 
 abuses engineered and executed by its students, the school remains 
 operational and fully-financed. Narrated by Martin Sheen, the documentary 
 features interviews with political thinkers (Noam Chomsky, Christopher 
 Hitchens, Eduardo Galeano), Congresspersons (Barbara Lee, Mac Collins), 
 Army officers (Maj. Gen. John LeMoyne),victims and social activists (Sister 
 Dianna Ortiz) who tackle the issues of U.S. economic and military policies 
 in Latin America, the war on drugs, and terrorism. Director John H. Smihula 
 and producer Vivi Lestou are available for interviews. With the 
 Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) now branded a terrorist 
 organization by the US, and Colombian President Pastrana unilaterally 
 withdrawing from the peace process in February 2002, this is a very timely 
 analysis of the Plan Colombia: Cashing In On the Drug War Failure will 
 a\nlso be featured. 20-year war on drugs in Colombia and the realities of 
 what is known as "Plan Colombia." A counterpoint structure and a wide range 
 of interviews with, among others, Noam Chomsky, the late Senator Paul 
 Wellstone, Green presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt (later kidnapped 
 by FARC), US State Department officials, US Congress members, and Colombian 
 farmers, rebels, social activists and military, help build an insightful 
 analysis of the purposes behind the drug war that, in the last decade, has 
 resulted in a twofold increase in cocaine imports to the US."\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/26993.php
SUMMARY: Hidden In Plain Sight & Plan Colombia: Cashing In On the Drug War Failure
LOCATION: Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street between Valencia and Guerrero
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/26993.php
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