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Los Escuadrones De La Muerte/ The Death Squadron
Ce document exceptionnel dévoile une page occultée de l'histoire de France, où se croisent aussi des anciens de l'OAS, des fascistes européens ou des " moines soldats" agissant pour le compte de l'organisation intégriste la Cité catholique... Dans les années 1970 et 1980, les dictatures militaires du Cône sud de l'Amérique latine ont férocement réprimé leurs opposants, utilisant à grande échelle les techniques de la " guerre sale " (rafles, torture, exécutions, escadrons de la mort...). C'est en enquêtant sur l'organisation transnationale dont s'étaient dotées ces dictatures –; le fameux " Plan Condor " –; que Marie-Monique Robin a découvert le rôle majeur joué secrètement par des militaires français dans la formation à ces méthodes de leurs homologues latino-américains. Dès la fin des années 1950, les méthodes de la " Bataille d'Alger " sont enseignées à l'École supérieure de guerre de Paris, puis en Argentine, où s'installe une " mission militaire permanente française " constituée d'anciens d'Algérie. De même, en 1960, des experts français en lutte antisubversive, dont le général Paul Aussaresses, formeront les officiers américains aux techniques de la " guerre moderne ", qu'ils applique-ront au Sud-Viêtnam.
Des dessous encore méconnus des guerres françaises en Indochine et en Algérie, jusqu'à la collaboration politique secrète établie par le gouvernement de Valéry Giscard d'Estaing avec les dictatures de Pinochet et de Videla, ce livre –; fruit d'une enquête de deux ans, en Amérique latine et en Europe –; dévoile une page occulte de l'histoire de France, où se croisent aussi des anciens de l'OAS, des fascistes européens ou des " moines soldats " agissant pour le compte de l'organisation intégriste la Cité catholique...
Des dessous encore méconnus des guerres françaises en Indochine et en Algérie, jusqu'à la collaboration politique secrète établie par le gouvernement de Valéry Giscard d'Estaing avec les dictatures de Pinochet et de Videla, ce livre –; fruit d'une enquête de deux ans, en Amérique latine et en Europe –; dévoile une page occulte de l'histoire de France, où se croisent aussi des anciens de l'OAS, des fascistes européens ou des " moines soldats " agissant pour le compte de l'organisation intégriste la Cité catholique...
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First published January 1, 2004
About the author
Marie-Monique Robin
16 books38 followersfrom Wikipedia: Marie-Monique Robin is a French TV journalist and documentary filmmaker. She generally issues books and documentary films together on the topics she investigates.
Her work has been recognized by numerous awards: the 1995 Albert Londres Prize for Voleurs d'yeux (1994), an expose about organ theft; best political documentary award from the French Senate for Escadrons de la mort, l'école française (2003), her film about France's transfer of counter-insurgency techniques (including torture) to Argentina; and the Rachel Carson Prize for Le monde selon Monsanto (2008), her film on Monsanto and challenges to the environment from its products, including GMOs.
Her work has been recognized by numerous awards: the 1995 Albert Londres Prize for Voleurs d'yeux (1994), an expose about organ theft; best political documentary award from the French Senate for Escadrons de la mort, l'école française (2003), her film about France's transfer of counter-insurgency techniques (including torture) to Argentina; and the Rachel Carson Prize for Le monde selon Monsanto (2008), her film on Monsanto and challenges to the environment from its products, including GMOs.
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March 7, 2021
A plunge into the "hidden face of French history" by the journalist Marie-Monique Robin. What she calls "modern warfare" or the "doctrine of national security" invoked in the 1960s and 1970s by the worst dictatorial regimes in South America (Chile or Argentina) or more recently by the United States in Iraq, Russia in Chechnya, etc., was invented by French soldiers during the wars in Indochina and Algeria. This "anti-subversive war" theorized by the French military was then exported to South America in the name of the anti-communist struggle by some veterans of the Algerian war in South America. A different side of the Cold War story which is not told in schools.
March 21, 2024
A very depressing but very useful read about how capitalist imperialism used their racist imagining of communist "totalitarianism" as a justification to employ what they themselves described as a totalitarian system of control and war against civilian populations.
May 31, 2010
A must-read for anyone interested in history of far-right movements, South American dictatorships (especially Pinochet's Chile & Argentina, but also Central America), and the legacy of the Algerian War, but also, more generally, on counter-insurgency (useful for understanding current events).
Basically, the books, through dozens of interviews (with military generals, Pinochet's lawyer, etc.), shows the transmission of two doctrinal currents, French national-catholicism and French military counter-insurgency doctrine, to Latin America, through official (French military agreement with Argentina from 1959 to 1981) and un-official channels (mainly OAS and the Cité catholique national-catholic movement, which created antennas in Argentina).
It is one of the founding books on the matter, recognized by historians as an important source.
Basically, the books, through dozens of interviews (with military generals, Pinochet's lawyer, etc.), shows the transmission of two doctrinal currents, French national-catholicism and French military counter-insurgency doctrine, to Latin America, through official (French military agreement with Argentina from 1959 to 1981) and un-official channels (mainly OAS and the Cité catholique national-catholic movement, which created antennas in Argentina).
It is one of the founding books on the matter, recognized by historians as an important source.
May 31, 2010
See the review on the English translation of the book.
July 18, 2013
Very good, in order to avoid romantic revivals of this dark times.
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