It's ok if you're a terrorist for the U.S.
"Over its 56 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. These graduates have consistently used their skills to wage a war against their own people. Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced into refugee by those trained at the School of Assassins."
Notorious Graduates of SOA
These graduates are responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America.
"School of the Americas is the biggest base for destabilization in Latin America.”
US Training Manuals Declassified in 1996
Several recently declassified US military training manuals show how US agents taught repressive techniques and promoted the violation of human rights throughout Latin America and around the globe. The manuals provide the paper trail that proves how the US trained Latin American and other militaries to infiltrate and spy upon civilians and groups, including unions, political parties, and student and charitable organizations; to treat legal political opposition like armed insurgencies; and to circumvent laws on due process, arrest, and detention. In these how-to guides, the US advocates tactics such as executing guerrillas, blackmail, false imprisonment, physical abuse, using truth serum to obtain information, and paying bounties for enemy dead. Counterintelligence agents are advised that one of their functions is "recommending targets for neutralization," a euphemism for execution or destruction.
http://www.soaw.org/new/
Thumbs up Venezuela
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.
Thumbs up Kucinich
"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 <http://www.house.gov/kucinich/issues/internationalrelations.htm>
On January 17, 2001 the School of the Americas was replaced by the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. The new military training school is the continuation of the SOA under a new name. It is a new name, but the same shame.
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/usarsa/
Graduates from Ft. Benning partook in Latin America's most corrupt regimes, yet Congress still funds the school
Activists Protest Army School in Georgia
"Over its 56 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. These graduates have consistently used their skills to wage a war against their own people. Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced into refugee by those trained at the School of Assassins."
Notorious Graduates of SOA
These graduates are responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America.
"School of the Americas is the biggest base for destabilization in Latin America.”
US Training Manuals Declassified in 1996
Several recently declassified US military training manuals show how US agents taught repressive techniques and promoted the violation of human rights throughout Latin America and around the globe. The manuals provide the paper trail that proves how the US trained Latin American and other militaries to infiltrate and spy upon civilians and groups, including unions, political parties, and student and charitable organizations; to treat legal political opposition like armed insurgencies; and to circumvent laws on due process, arrest, and detention. In these how-to guides, the US advocates tactics such as executing guerrillas, blackmail, false imprisonment, physical abuse, using truth serum to obtain information, and paying bounties for enemy dead. Counterintelligence agents are advised that one of their functions is "recommending targets for neutralization," a euphemism for execution or destruction.
http://www.soaw.org/new/
Thumbs up Venezuela
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.
Thumbs up Kucinich
"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 <http://www.house.gov/kucinich/issues/internationalrelations.htm>
On January 17, 2001 the School of the Americas was replaced by the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. The new military training school is the continuation of the SOA under a new name. It is a new name, but the same shame.
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/usarsa/
Graduates from Ft. Benning partook in Latin America's most corrupt regimes, yet Congress still funds the school
Activists Protest Army School in Georgia
