Unholy Trinity by Greg Grandin

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The Unholy Trinity of Death Squads, Disappearances and Torture. The evil infrastructure built by Washington in Latin America and South East Asia.

An Unholy Trinity

Like rendition, disappearances can't be carried out without a synchronized, sophisticated, and increasingly transnational infrastructure, which, back in the 1960s and 1970s, the United States was instrumental in creating. In fact, it was in Latin America that the CIA and U.S. military intelligence agents, working closely with local allies, first helped put into place the unholy trinity of government-sponsored terrorism now on display in Iraq and elsewhere: death squads, disappearances, and torture.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174873/greg_grandin_on_the_torturable_and_the_untorturable

An earlier thread on the "desaparecido" of Latin America:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2452089&mesg_id=2452089