SOA Watch
U.S. Supreme Court turns the U.S.-Mexico border into a free-fire zone for Border Patrol agents, destroying last hopes for justice for Hernandez Guereca , Elena Rodriguez, and other families who filed civil lawsuits against Border 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 …
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 …
POSITION REGARDING EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN EL SALVADOR ON FEBRUARY 9, 2020 On Sunday February 9, 2020, El Salvador’s President, Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez, entered the Blue Room of the Legislative Assembly, accompanied by members of 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 …
The result of the civilian-targeted warfare training provided at SOA/WHINSEC is lethally trained and militarized state “security” forces that lack oversight and target their own populations, disproportionately threatening Black and Brown communities. For 30 years, the Read More …