SOA Watch
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 …
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 …
No More Training in the School of Americas (SOA/WHINSEC) Training in 2019 Colombia trained 490 government “security” force members in 2019 in SOA/WHINSEC Colombia continues to produce “false positives,” in which state forces assassinate civilians Read More …
On November 10, 2019, two-time WHINSEC graduate and Commander of the Bolivian Armed Forces, General Williams Kaliman ‘suggested’ that Bolivian President Evo Morales resign. General Kaliman’s statement came after post-election protests bolstered by a false Read More …
Colombia Guillermo Botero, the Colombian Minister of Defense, had to resign due to his responsibility in the bombing of the Army, on August 31, 2019, in San Vicente del Caguán, Caquetá, where seven children died. Read More …
In July, an Italian appeals court sentenced 24 former officials from Bolivia, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay to life in prison for their roles in Operation Condor — a brutal and extremely deadly US-backed operation in Read More …
ARGENTINA Name: Naval Officer Emilio Massera (Deceased), Commander-in-chief of the Navy, 1973 – 1978 , Military Junta Leader 1976 – 1978 Country: Argentina Dates/courses: Attended the School of the Americas in Panama* Info: In May Read More …
Name: General Romeo Orlando Vásquez Velásquez Country: Honduras Dates/courses: Took a combat arms course at SOA in 1976 and another course on small military units in 1984 Info: Four out of the six Honduran soldiers 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 …