| The Venezuelan government has announced that it is going to cease all training of Venezuelan soldiers at the School of the Americas (now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), the controversial US military combat training school for Latin American soldiers, based in Fort Benning, Georgia.
...Over its 58 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counter-insurgency techniques, sniper skills, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. Graduates have consistently used their skills to wage a war against their own people. Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, unionists, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. Thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, "disappeared," massacred, and forced into refuge by those trained at the SOA. For more information on this issue, contact Father Roy Bourgeois of School of the Americas Watch (www.soawatch.org), 706-682-5369 |
Some of the April 2002 coup leaders apparently were graduates of the SOA.
| (From the SOA Watch site) Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has repeatedly announced that, if elected, one of his first actions as president would be to immediately close down the SOA/WHISC. Kucinich’s official position on the SOA/WHISC:
http://www.house.gov/kucinich/issues/internationalrelations.htm#School |
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