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Four of the former Colombian military personnel arrested for the assassination of the Haitian President were trained at WHINSEC. They took courses in counter drug operations, cadet leadership development, noncommissioned officer development and small unit 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 …
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 …
By Pablo Ruiz SOAwatch Translation by Ana Maria Vasquez – For Latin America, the murder of George Floyd, on May 25, in the United States, and the protests that followed, were of great importance. They Read More …
When it comes to the U.S. government, no one should confuse agency size for the likelihood of accountability. For example, U.S. Border Patrol is the Department of Homeland Security’s largest federal law enforcement agency, yet 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 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 …
Click here to download a searchable Excel file with names of SOA-WHINSEC graduates, their country, and course taken. Please note that the Department of Defense now refuses to publicly release the names of graduates; the Read More …
We’re excited to share the recordings of the Confronting Forced Migration and Violence in the Americas Webinar Series from Saturday and Sunday, April 4th and 5th, 2020. During the series, we heard from community organizers, Read More …
1 – Voices from Abya Yala (the Americas): Realities and Resistance / Voces de Abya Yala (América): Realidades y resistencia 2 – Countering Anti-Migrant Narratives and Media Work / Contrarrestando las narrativas anti-migrantes y el Read More …