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The following letter was faxed to doxycycline precio all of the Democratic candidates running for president. January 14, 2004 Dear [Candidate's Name]: School of the doxycycline precio Americas Watch is seeking statements from all of the Democratic candidates for doxycycline precio President of the United States regarding your position on the Western Hemisphere Institute for doxycycline precio Security Cooperation (WHISC or WHINSEC), formerly the United States Army School of the Americas (SOA). SOA Watch is doxycycline precio a nonviolent grassroots movement that works to stand in solidarity with the doxycycline precio people of Latin America, to close the SOA/WHISC. There are doxycycline precio currently over 200 SOAW grassroots groups nationally, hundreds of groups that doxycycline precio work on the SOA as a primary issue, as well as many other organizations and doxycycline precio constituency groups with whom we work closely. In response to doxycycline precio grassroots and media inquiries following the appearance of an article in the doxycycline precio NY Post on General Clark?s support of the doxycycline precio school, we are providing information on the positions of the presidential candidates on this doxycycline precio issue. The Kucinich campaign has already publicly opposed the SOA/WHISC and stated that he would close it down. All of this doxycycline precio information will be posted on the web and has already been doxycycline precio sent to our email list of over 20,000 nationally. We wanted to doxycycline precio alert your campaign to the media coverage and invite you to doxycycline precio issue a statement so that we may educate our networks on your doxycycline precio position. If you collect any articles that are appropriate we would encourage you doxycycline precio to send those as well. Despite efforts to doxycycline precio evade criticism of the Ft. Benning-based training school through a name change and doxycycline precio cosmetic changes, it is still a combat training school that provides dangerous skills to doxycycline precio countries with serious and current human rights problems. The proliferation of skills like counter-insurgency and doxycycline precio psychological warfare in countries like Colombia, where impunity is offered to doxycycline precio paramilitaries, only perpetuates the cycles of violence. Keeping the doxycycline precio school open under any name sends a powerful anti-human rights message. Establishing reasonable living conditions for doxycycline precio the people of Latin America and strengthening civil institutions will do more to doxycycline precio stabilize the region than training repressive militaries. The graduates of this doxycycline precio institution have a long history of human rights violations. From the doxycycline precio atrocities in El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980's to recent violations in Colombia, SOA/WHISC graduates consistently appear in reports on human rights abuses in Latin America. SOA/WHISC training has doxycycline precio resulted in civilian massacres, assassinations, disappearances, death threats and has doxycycline precio led to both attempted and successful coups of democratically elected governments in the doxycycline precio hemisphere. Closing the SOA/WHISC, whatever its name, would demonstrate that doxycycline precio the United States has made a clean break from the tragic history of the doxycycline precio SOA/WHISC and its graduates. We urge you doxycycline precio to demonstrate your commitment to human rights in Latin America, and doxycycline precio all over the world, by voicing your commitment to close the doxycycline precio SOA/WHISC. If you doxycycline precio have any questions, please contact me at 202-234-3440, This e-mail address is doxycycline precio being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Jacqueline Baker Legislative Coordinator |
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