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The SOA Watch movement has learned that the infamous school is not just a building; it is not just a policy. The school is a mindset with roots as old as the colonization of the Americas. It is the belief that land, resources, and human rights are commodities that can be bought, stolen, and destroyed.
For those of us with School of the Americas Watch, it evokes memories of the closure of the School of the Americas (SOA) in December 2000 and the subsequent opening on January 17, 2001, of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) – on the same site, and with many of the same teachers, classes and manuals.
School of the Americas Watch is an advocacy organization founded by former Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois and a small group of supporters in 1990 to protest the training of mainly Latin American military officers, by the United States Department of Defense, at the School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning).
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly known as the School of the Americas, [2] is a United States Department of Defense school located at Fort Moore in Columbus, Georgia, renamed in the 2001 National Defense Authorization Act.
The SOA, renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) in 2001, is a US military training school based in Ft. Benning, Georgia. The school made headlines in 1996 training manuals used at the school that advocated torture, extortion and execution were released.
SOA Watch began in 1990 to denounce the 1989 School of the Americas (SOA) graduate-led massacre at the University of Central America (UCA) in El Salvador.
1 cze 2011 · The Ft. Benning, GA, military training center formerly known as the SOA, or School of the Americas, is used to train Latin American soldiers in combat, counterinsurgency and...
