{"id":3887,"date":"2012-04-26T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2012-12-29T02:22:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T07:22:55","slug":"dictators-a-successful-american-export","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/dictators-a-successful-american-export\/","title":{"rendered":"Dictators: A Successful American Export?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/042612_0854_DictatorsAS1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joshua E. Keating notes that the United States has become a training ground of sorts for military dictators. Examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amadou Haya Sanogo who overthrew Mali&#8217;s government last month and received basic officer training in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Yahya Jammeh who received military police training in Alabama and remains in power after a coup in The Gambia 18 years ago. He has told his critics to go to hell and has vowed to rule for a billion years.<\/li>\n<li>Michel Francois who received small arms and ammunition repair training in Maryland and helped lead a coup in Haiti in 1991.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read many more examples, including the dictator who fled to the very place he swore to destroy, the School of the Americas that seems to produce a disproportionate number of coup leaders, and the man who survived 13 coup attempts, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/03\/28\/trained_in_the_usa\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/03\/28\/trained_in_the_usa\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2012\/03\/30\/america-training-ground-for-dictators\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua E. Keating notes that the United States has become a training ground of sorts for military dictators. Examples include: Amadou Haya Sanogo who overthrew Mali&#8217;s government last month and received basic officer training in the United States. Yahya Jammeh who received military police training in Alabama and remains in power after a coup in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/042612_0854_DictatorsAS1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3894,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions\/3894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}