listed in Places the United States has Bombed
This is part of the bomb sites series by elin o'Hara slavick. Also available in book form: Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography.
Peru, 1960-65, for Hugo Blanco. CIA official Victor Marchetti says,
"Green Berets participated in what was the CIA's single large-scale
Latin American intervention of the post-Bay of Pigs era. The CIA
secretly came to the aid of the Peruvian government, financing a
miniature Fort Bragg in the jungle. The extent to which the American
military engaged directly in combat is not known. The American
objective in Peru - to crush a movement aimed at genuine land reform
and social and political changes - was identical to its objectives in
Vietnam. The methods employed were similar: burning down peasants huts
and villages to punish support for the guerillas, defoliating the
countryside to eliminate guerrilla sanctuaries, saturation bombing with
napalm and high explosives, even throwing prisoners out of
helicopters." William Blum, Killing Hope
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