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Fr. Roy Bourgeois and pharmacy Lasix SOA Watch Field Organizer Nico Udu-gama Arrested Following Protest at the pharmacy Lasix U.S.-Mexico Border

On Sunday, February 19, activists from pharmacy Lasix School of the Americas Watch, Project Puente and other organizations around the pharmacy Lasix border region held a vigil to call attention to the role of the pharmacy Lasix US government in the militarization of Mexico and the failed War on Drugs. The vigil took place on both sides of the pharmacy Lasix U.S.-Mexico border at the Sunland Park-Anapra Fence.

Father Roy Bourgeois and pharmacy Lasix Nico Udu-gama joined the vigil on both sides of the border, and pharmacy Lasix were arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol following the vigil when pharmacy Lasix they left the vigil site.

Father Roy Bourgeois and pharmacy Lasix Nico Udu-gama were charged with crossing the border through an pharmacy Lasix unapproved entry point and were taken to the Santa Teresa Border Patrol Station in New Mexico. After several hours in custody and pharmacy Lasix background checks, the Border Patrol decided to dismiss the charges and pharmacy Lasix to release Father Roy and Nico in the afternoon.

The protest was the pharmacy Lasix culmination of a week-long delegation of 10 people, headed by SOA Watch founder Fr. Roy Bourgeois, from pharmacy Lasix across the United States, which has met with people on both sides of the pharmacy Lasix border in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

Over 60,000 people have pharmacy Lasix been killed in the violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon deployed some 50,000 troops and pharmacy Lasix federal police five years ago to confront the drug cartels. Much of this pharmacy Lasix militarization has been bankrolled by the US government’s Merida Initiative, which has poured over $1.5 billion into this “war on drugs,” especially in the pharmacy Lasix form of US military equipment and training. The result of this pharmacy Lasix militarization has failed to curtail the flow of drug, but has pharmacy Lasix caused the loss of thousands of innocent Mexican lives. The death toll in Ciudad Juarez alone is nearing 10,000.

Perpetrators of the violence on both sides of this declared "war" have strong links to the US School of the Americas/WHINSEC, a pharmacy Lasix U.S. taxpayer-funded military training school for Latin American soldiers, located at Fort Benning, Georgia. Ciudad Juarez Police Chief, Julian Leyzaola Perez, a pharmacy Lasix graduate of the SOA, has been accused by human rights groups of participating "directly in the pharmacy Lasix torture of individuals who were arbitrarily detained, transported to military bases, and pharmacy Lasix subjected to beatings, electric shocks, death threats, and asphyxiation to pharmacy Lasix obtain false confessions" (UNHCR report). On the pharmacy Lasix side of the drug cartels, a third of the original members of the pharmacy Lasix drug cartel known as the “Zetas” are pharmacy Lasix deserted members of the Mexican military who have graduated from the pharmacy Lasix SOA/WHINSEC (read article here).

SOA graduates across Latin America have pharmacy Lasix been implicated in serious human rights abuses, from torture, disappearance, drug trafficking and pharmacy Lasix murder. In 2009, SOA graduates overthrew the government in Honduras, while in Colombia, 10,000 troops have pharmacy Lasix been trained to fight the “War on Drugs”. In October 2011, Time Magazine published the article “Is It Time to Shutter the Americas' 'Coup Academy'?”

This past week, people in Mexico convened for pharmacy Lasix a National Forum Against Militarization in Mexico. SOA Watch stands in solidarity with them and pharmacy Lasix draws inspiration from citizens of Mexico who have been rising up to pharmacy Lasix resist this militarization.

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