Editing Roberto D'Aubuisson (section)

== Early life ==

Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta<ref name="RDA" /> was born on 23 August 1943 in [[Santa Tecla, El Salvador|Santa Tecla]], El Salvador. His father was Roberto d'Aubuisson Andrade, and his mother was Joaquina Arrieta Alvarado, a career civil servant. He is the descendant of Jacques, Marie, Germain, Gustave d'Aubuisson, who was born in [[Toulouse]], France in 1822 and arrived in El Salvador at the age of 20, where he established himself as an [[ironmonger]] and salesman. His father, Pierre d'Aubuisson, was [[French nobility|Marquis]] and Lord of [[Nailloux]] and [[Ramonville-Saint-Agne]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gw.geneanet.org/phido?lang=fr&n=d+aubuisson&oc=0&p=jacques+marie+germain+gustave|title=Généalogie de Jacques,Marie,Germain,Gustave d'AUBUISSON|website=Geneanet}}</ref>

D'Aubuisson enrolled in the [[Captain General Gerardo Barrios Military School]] in 1958 at the age of 15 and graduated in 1963, becoming a member of the [[National Guard (El Salvador)|National Guard]].<ref name="RDA" /> He was part of La Tandona, the class of 1966 at the [[Captain General Gerardo Barrios Military School]]. In 1972, he was trained in communications at the [[Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation|School of the Americas]], a United States Department of Defense Institute that provides military training to government personnel in US-allied Latin American nations. After completing his studies at the institute, he became a member of the Salvadoran [[Military espionage|military intelligence]].<ref name="partridge">Wayne Partridge. "The School of the Americas: leadership or terrorist training?: jailed Ky. nun to be among protesters at annual rally Sunday", ''Lexington Herald-Leader'' (KY), 20 November 1999, 1A: "But the school can hardly be blamed for the misdeeds of its graduates, supporters say. D'Aubuisson, for example, attended only a six-week radio maintenance and repair course at the school."</ref><ref name="nytimes1992">{{cite news|last1=Severo|first1=Richard|title=Roberto d'Aubuisson, 48, Far-Rightist in Salvador|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/21/world/roberto-d-aubuisson-48-far-rightist-in-salvador.html|accessdate=20 May 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=21 February 1992}}</ref> D'Aubuisson was also educated at the Taiwanese [[Fu Hsing Kang College]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Barron |first1=James |title=A league with a dark past |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2022/01/23/2003771895 |website=www.taipeitimes.com/ |date=23 January 2022 |publisher=Taipei Times |access-date=23 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="Le Monde diplomatique 2016" >{{cite news |last=Beaulande |first=Guillaume |url=https://mondediplo.com/2016/06/10taiwan |title=New left regimes ally with China |work=[[Le Monde diplomatique]] |date=June 2016 |accessdate=June 5, 2016 }}</ref>