Romeo Vasquez, a general who led the military coup in Honduras against President Manuel Zelaya, received training at the US School of the Americas. The SOA has trained more than 60,000 soldiers, many of whom have returned home and committed human rights abuses, torture, extrajudicial execution and massacres. According to School of the Americas Watch, Vasquez attended the SOA in 1976 and 1984. The head of the Air Force, Gen. Luis Javier Prince Suazo, also studied there in 1996. We speak with Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch.
"School of Americas" Generals Charged in Colombia
Two Colombian SOA. graduates, have been accused of crimes involving narcotics and collaborating with criminal paramilitary groups.
New Military Base in Colombia Would Spread Pentagon Reach Throughout Latin America
The Pentagon budget submitted to Congress on May 7 includes $46 million for development of a new U.S. military base in Palanquero, Colombia.
Interview with H.I.J.O.S.
¡Presente! talked with Cecilia Gonzales of H.I.J.O.S. about their activism, re-militarization and the SOA.
Not Just Change, but Justice!
Teach-in organized by the Latin America Solidarity Coalition and the North American Congress on Latin America.
Moving the Vigil to DC?
Ad your opinion about the proposal to move the 2010 November Vigil from Fort Benning, Georgia to Washington, DC.
It's time to turn hope into reality
Obama's first 100 days in the White House - an article by SOA Watch Communications Coordinator Pablo Ruiz.
Central America Delegation Report Back - FMLN takes over Presidency in El Salvador
A small SOA Watch delegation recently traveled to El Salvador to dialogue with this new government about the participation of Salvadoran soldiers in the SOA/ WHINSEC.
It’s Important that We Make the Connections
Interview with Ruby Sales about police execution of Black men and the history of state violence and white violence against people of color in the United States.
Adam Kufeld
Adam's photos from the FMLN victory in El Salvador will be published in the Summer 09 issue of Presente.
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A challenging new documentary has quickly become one of the
widest-reaching films to encapsulate the history of the SOA Watch
movement.
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
Taxi to the Dark Side
