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🗓️ 17 August 2020
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David Castillo has been accused of planning the murder of Berta Caceres. But he insists that everything you think you know about this crime is wrong.
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0:00.0 | You're looking good. |
0:07.0 | It's May 29, 2004. |
0:10.0 | Graduation Day at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. |
0:15.0 | The U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, stands on a stage in a football stadium, squinting into the crowd. |
0:24.7 | It's a privilege to be here in the shadows of some of the greatest leaders of our age, |
0:30.7 | and to celebrate today with the leaders who will follow in their footsteps. |
0:37.3 | Rumsfeld is speaking to about 900 graduating cadets. |
0:41.8 | They wear clean white hats and gray wool jackets. |
0:45.9 | Scattered among the graduates are about 50, |
0:48.7 | who are a little different from the rest. |
0:51.3 | They're part of West Point's little-known foreign cadet program. They're the international |
0:57.5 | students, essentially. West Point aims to instill in them a familiarity with and a respect for |
1:05.0 | the U.S. military. Dozens of allied countries participate in it. |
1:15.3 | The idea is that those countries end up with well-educated future leaders. |
1:20.0 | The United States also gets something out of this program. |
1:27.3 | Future foreign counterparts who have a relationship with the U.S. military on a personal level. |
1:28.3 | Rumsfeld knows the value in grooming these cadets. |
1:32.3 | He even gives them a shout-out in his speech. |
1:36.3 | They come from all across this great country and from, I'm told, |
1:40.3 | American, Samoa, Cameroon, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Jordan. |
1:45.7 | That nod to Honduras actually refers to a single student, David Castillo. |
1:53.3 | He's spent the past four years here, taking the exact same classes as his American counterparts, |
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