From a government that funded and operated the Infamous "school of Americas" now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation for 55 years its hardly suprising that such attitudes exist.
A school that graduated criminals such as Noriega and Galtieri and promulagted (extraced from their training manuals) blackmail, torture, execution and the arrest of witnesses' relatives to get things done, sounds a bit like Saddam Husseins regime when you think about it.