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Summary of 1993 UN Truth Commission Report on El Salvador SUMMARY Introduction The Commission on the Truth (herein “Truth Commission”) was so named because its very purpose and function have been to seek, find and 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 …
The Dead: Victims at El Mozote and Nearby Villages This list of names was initially compiled by Tutela Legal, a church-run human rights group in El Salvador, and updated by Mark Danner, author of The Read More …
Memory March 3, 2016: Berta Cáceres, a Lenca indigenous leader, feminist and Honduran environmental activist, is murdered. March 8: International Women’s Day. It was established in 1910 in memory of the New York workers that Read More …
On December 2, 2019, a Honduran court sentenced seven men for the murder of visionary Honduran social movement leader Berta Cáceres — over a full year after finding them guilty. This includes Douglas Bustillo, an SOA graduate and former Read More …
Report: Violence, Corruption & Impunity in the Honduran Energy Industry The report Violence, Corruption & Impunity in the Honduran Energy Industry profiles Roberto David Castillo and related companies. Castillo is a former Honduran military intelligence Read More …
The 1989 University of Central America Massacre Sources at the [SOA] say that when…soldiers go through the urban-combat exercise with blanks in their weapons, half the time the village priest (played by a U.S. Army Read More …
Earlier this month, a Honduran court removed the lawyers representing both the family of Indigenous leader Berta Caceres and the only eyewitness of Berta’s assassination, Gustavo Castro, from the legal case against the first 8 Read More …
Friday March 23 marked the 36th anniversary of the 1982 coup in Guatemala that brought SOA graduate General Efraín Ríos Montt to power. Like his predecessor, SOA graduate General Manuel Benedicto Lucas García, Ríos Montt Read More …
Brigitte Gynther, SOA Watch Latin America Liaison On September 27, 2017, the preliminary hearing against four of those accused of murdering Berta Caceres was postponed for the third time because of the failure of the Read More …