Memoria y Resistencia: Close the School of the Americas!
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 Read More …
Today is the 4-year anniversary of the indigenous land defender and feminist leader, Berta Cáceres brutal assassination. Berta was the co-founder of COPINH and was murdered for her brave fight in defense of the indigenous Read More …
Textbook Repression: US Training Manuals Declassified By Lisa Haugaard, Covert Action Quarterly Several recently declassified US military training manuals show how US agents taught repressive techniques and promoted the violation of human rights throughout Latin Read More …
SOA Manuals On September 20, 1996, under intense public pressure, the Pentagon was forced to release training manuals that were used at the School of the Americas for years. These manuals advocated torture, extortion, blackmail Read More …