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Washington, DC, Washington DC

Cause Description:
The US Army School of the Americas (SOA), based in Fort Benning, Georgia, trains Latin American soldiers in combat, counter-insurgency, and counter-narcotics. Graduates of the "School of Assassins" have been responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America. Among the SOA's nearly 60,000 graduates are some of the most notorious dictators of Latin America, including Manuel Noreiga and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri and Roberto Viola of Argentina, Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru, Guillermo Rodriguez of Ecuador, and Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia. Lower-level graduates of the "School of Assassins" have been responsible for some of the most notorious massacres and human rights abuses including the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the El Mozote Massacre. The school is paid for by US taxpayers. SOA Watch monitors the activities of the SOA, provides information to others, and organizes peaceful protests aimed at closing the school.

Type: Advocacy
Listed on iGive since: January 1998
iGive members supporting: 2

Website: http://www.soaw.org/

Raised through iGive: $19.14 across 1 check, December 1999 to December 1999.

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