19 Facts About Marie-Monique Robin

Marie-Monique Robin was born in 1960 and grew up in the Deux-Sevres, where her parents were farmers.

Marie-Monique Robin studied political science at the University of Saarbrucken and graduated from university teaching journalism center of the University of Strasbourg.

Marie-Monique Robin traveled to South America more than 80 times, including 30 times to Cuba.

Marie-Monique Robin reported on the Colombian guerrillas, and later worked for CAPA news agency.

Marie-Monique Robin was subjected to various pressures and personal attacks, but the following year in 1995, she was awarded the Albert-Londres prize for her film.

Marie-Monique Robin is doing a report on Cuba for Thalassa, a French television program.

Marie-Monique Robin made a 2003 film documentary titled Escadrons de la mort, l'ecole francaise that investigated the little-known ties between the French secret services and their Argentine and Chilean counterparts.

Marie-Monique Robin received an award in 2003 for the "best political documentary of the year" by the French Senate, in recognition of this work.

Marie-Monique Robin's associated book on the death squads was published in 2004.

Marie-Monique Robin expanded on her discussion of how the French military officials had taught Argentine counterparts counter-insurgency tactics, including the systematic use of torture as they had used it during the Algerian War.

Marie-Monique Robin documented a 1959 agreement between Paris and Buenos Aires that created a "permanent French military mission" in Argentina, formed of French veterans of the Algerian War.

Marie-Monique Robin's noted book on counter-insurgency, Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency, had a strong influence in South America and elsewhere, including in the School of the Americas.

Crimes et mensonges d'Etat, Marie-Monique Robin refers to false flag attacks committed by Algerian death squads.

Marie-Monique Robin said such actions recalled "the French Main rouge", a terrorist group during the 1960s which may have been constituted by French secret services, "or the Argentine Triple A":.

In 1997, Marie-Monique Robin interviewed two Argentine navy cadets from the ESMA, noted as a center of counter-insurgency during the Dirty War.

Anibal Acosta, one of the cadets interviewed by Marie-Monique Robin, described the session:.

Marie-Monique Robin noted that United States Pentagon officials involved in "special operations" viewed Pontecorvo's film on 27 August 2003.

Marie-Monique Robin criticized the Commission's report for its gaps, as she had found the document at the Quai d'Orsay.

Torture Made in USA is a documentary by Marie-Monique Robin released in 2009.