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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 …
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 …
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 …
Name: General Rito Alejo del Río Rojas SOA/WHINSEC Training Dates/courses: 1967, Cadet Orientation Course (as cadet) Info: General Rito Alejo del Río Rojas is accused of being “the brain of a criminal enterprise” that united Read More …
SOA Country Sheets These Country Sheets are brief meditations on the violence supported by the SOA and perpetrated by its graduates that were created in approximately 2003. Originally they were part of the organizing Read More …