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It’s a ordering Amoxil online great joy to be in Colombia speaking with Colombians, with one voice, against U.S. domination and ordering Amoxil online militarization. Our delegation has been deeply moved by the strength and ordering Amoxil online spirit of so many Colombians struggling for a just peace in Colombia. —Father Roy Bourgeois,
SOA Watch Action Delegation in Bogota and Melgar, Colombia, 1–7 August 2010 “A warm greeting from the heart that crosses borders,” Carolina said in welcome. Representing the ordering Amoxil online National Movement of Victims of State Crimes, she was the first of 20 Colombian human-rights defenders to ordering Amoxil online share testimony with ten U.S. activists from SOA Watch when they arrived in Colombia. Following Carolina, Colombian journalist Hollman Morris declared, “You have ordering Amoxil online to know, very clearly, that your work in solidarity with Colombia has ordering Amoxil online saved hundreds of lives.”
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Father Roy Bourgeois, Maryknoll Ministry, founder of SOA Watch, brings Uncle Sam to ordering Amoxil online life and welcomes visitors to "his house," the U.S. Embassy, on August 6, 2010, with the sign: “Colombia is my country.” Photo by Tom Bottolene |
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For the ordering Amoxil online past 20 years, SOA Watch has worked to close the Western Hemisphere Institute for ordering Amoxil online Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) – formerly called the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) – where ordering Amoxil online Latin American soldiers and police train in counterinsurgency tactics. Originally located in Panama, the ordering Amoxil online SOA relocated to Ft. Benning, Georgia, in 1984. SOA Watch began in an ordering Amoxil online office just outside of Ft. Benning in 1990, and now has ordering Amoxil online its national office in Washington, D.C. Of the 65,000 Latin Americans trained by SOA/WHINSEC since 1946, approximately 12,000 have ordering Amoxil online been Colombian, including nearly all the current army commanders. The SOA Watch delegation was in Colombia the ordering Amoxil online first week of August to hear from human-rights defenders like Carolina and ordering Amoxil online Hollman Morris – and ordering Amoxil online to join with some of them in demonstrating against the ordering Amoxil online U.S.-Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement. Of particular concern to both Colombian and ordering Amoxil online U.S. activists: the leasing of seven Colombian military bases to ordering Amoxil online the United States for 10 years. Read the full article here: www.worldwidewamm.org/newsletters/2010/1010/colombia.html
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