School of the Americas

The Edwards Farewell Tour: Host Frank Stasio checks in with outgoing Senator John Edwards, who is traveling across North Carolina as part of a farewell tour. (6:00)

School of the Americas: It used to call itself the School of the Americas. Critics call it the “School of Assassins.” Many of the most notorious human rights violators in Latin America were trained at the military education center at Fort Benning, Georgia. Host Frank Stasio talks military training and political violence with American University professor of anthropology Lesley Gill, whose new book is “The School of the Americas” (Duke Press/2004). Listener Call-in (47:00)

Theater Review: Mike Munger, chair of the political science department at Duke University, reviews the new Playmakers production of “Not About Heroes.” (6:00)

Listen Here

Comments are closed.