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On June 20, 2022 a Honduran court finally presented the written verdict in the case against U.S. trained former military intelligence officer Roberto David Castillo for the murder of Berta Cáceres, sentencing him to 22 Read More …
Members of the U.S. Congress – Representatives Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Cori Bush (MO-01), Jesús “Chuy” Garcia (IL-04), and Jamaal Bowman (NY-16) – as well as representation from the office of Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), joined Read More …
5 years ago, I froze when I awoke to a message that Berta Cáceres had been murdered. I immediately called her close COPINH colleague, hoping it wouldn’t be true. But it was. Just the evening Read More …
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” Pablo Neruda On the morning of November 16, 1989, the Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army, led by 19 School of the Americas Read More …
On Friday, September 11, 2020, a Spanish court convicted SOA graduate Inocente Montano, a former Army Colonel and Minister of Security in El Salvador, for the November 1989 murders of five Spanish Jesuit priests — Read More …
In Chile, this September 11 marks 47 years since the military coup in 1973 against President Salvador Allende. Said military coup had the complicity of the United States government, which provided financing, training at the Read More …
Watch the SOA Watch Webinar with Nina Lakhani, author of ‘Who Killed Berta Cáceres?’ here. Watch the Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 4pm EDT/1pm PDT online conversation with Nina Lakhani, author of the recently released book Read More …
The following overview of the legal cases for the murder of Berta Cáceres, a visionary Indigenous and social movement leader in Honduras, is an excerpt from the report ‘Violence, Corruption & Impunity in the Honduran Read More …
The week of June 8, 2020, a trial began in Spain for the November 16, 1989 murders in El Salvador of Jesuit priests Ignacio Ellacuría, Amando López, Joaquín López y López, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Segundo Montes, Read More …
In several Latin American countries, during the last week of May, various activities were carried out in the framework of the “Semana Internacional del Detenido Desaparecido” (International Week of the Detained-Disappeared). It is not possible Read More …