Memoria y Resistencia: Close the School of the Americas!
The below organizations sign on to this public statement to express our deep concern for the life and wellbeing of human rights defender María Eugenia Mosquera, after a series threats made against her person. On Read More …
On Wednesday, October 7, 2020, SOA Watch, FOR Peace Presence, and SICSAL presented our report, From the Beginning to the End: The United States in the Colombian Armed Conflict, to Colombia’s official Truth Commission. Read Read More …
“In the name of God and of these suffering people, whose cries rise to heaven and are more and more tumultuous by the day, I beg you, I plead with you, I order you, in Read More …
SOA Watch condemns the recent increase of U.S. militarization in Colombia and nearby bodies of water, including the June 1, 2020 deployment of the U.S. Army 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) from Ft. Benning, GA to Read More …
April 24 marked the 30th day of Colombia’s nationwide quarantine declared by the national government, enforcing strict “stay at home” orders for non-essential workers which greatly limited the movement across city and departmental lines for Read More …
Segovia Massacre, Colombia The Massacre of 11 November 1988 (Nine SOA grads implicated) On 11 November 1988 heavily armed men drove in trucks into the centre of Segovia, opened fire and threw grenades indiscriminately, killing Read More …
Name: Colonel Alvaro Quijano Dates/courses: Instructor of Peacekeeping Operations and Democratic Sustainment courses at the school from 2003 to 2004 Info: Col. Alvaro Quijano led a special counterinsurgency unit in western Colombia — a drug Read More …