2004 WHINSEC Course List
El Salvador 1989: The Two Jesuit Standards and the Final Offensive
This thesis, written by Ignacio Ochoa in the spring of 2003, incorporates first-hand testimony, primary sources and secondary historical documentation to discuss the sociopolitical significance of the November 16, 1989 massacre of six Jesuits and two civilians at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in El Salvador. Ignacio argues that while the massacre was an attempt by the Salvadoran Armed Forces to debilitate the FMLN, the international outrage it provoked marked the beginning of the end for the unchecked power and legitimacy of the US-supported Salvadoran Armed Forces, and it became the driving force behind the Salvadoran peace process.
U.S. Military Bases in Latin America and the Caribbean
In the last five years, new U.S. bases and military access agreements have proliferated in Latin America, constituting a decentralization of the U.S. military presence in the region. This decentralization is Washington?s way of maintaining a broad military foothold while accommodating regional leaders? reluctance to host large U.S. military bases or complexes. John Lindsay-Poland of the Fellowship of Reconciliation offers an excellent analysis in the August 2004 Foreign Policy in Focus.
SOA Country Sheets
These Country Sheets are brief meditations on the violence supported by the SOA and perpetrated by its graduates. Originally they were part of the organizing packet for the Close it Down Fast, an international fast in which more than 1000 individuals, groups and organizations participated.
L'Ecole des Am?riques (EDA)
Critique of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
