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    "I am Raymond and I am going to tell you about a camp, an American training camp that the Doctor has been very much involved with, a camp that has been turning out dictators, torturers and murderers for over sixty years. The Spanish American War introduced your country to Empire and you never looked back. In 1904, the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine warped a protective policy towards the nations of Latin America into one of domination. After the Nazis had impressed some powerful Latin Americans, the United States decided it needed more than proclamations to protect its ‘Back Yard’. The School of the Americas was established in the Panama Canal Zone in 1946. The sons of the Latin American Oligarchy were offered an education in an elite boarding school to introduce them to the American way, and I’m not talking about baseball. For decades, graduates replete with manuals on torture, assassination, blackmail and extortion have done their Alma Mater proud by keeping the rich powerful and America in control. In 2001 it was moved to Fort Benning and renamed The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Cute, no?”

   The dogs seemed absolutely delighted by this saurian fabulist. They danced and pranced around his feet waving their arms. I thought it best to follow suit, so I twirled my arms above my head for as long as my dignity allowed. The crocodile grinned at my embarrassment.