NDNU students take a stand, travel to protest School of the Americas

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<Notre Dame de Namur University> students take a stand, travel to protest School of the Americas
Stephanie Scalise
Issue date: 12/6/07

... The members of the NDNU community attended the annual vigil and peaceful protest that occurs every year at the School of the Americas. The vigil is led by the School of the Americas Watch. This organization was founded by the Rev. Roy Bourgeois in 1990; its mission is to shut down the school in hope of stopping the violence in Latin American countries.

This school is not any ordinary school; according to SOA Watch, it is responsible for teaching terrorist tactics to 60,000 soldiers from Latin American countries.

"I felt motivated because I personally identify with those suffering in Latin America," said Andres Caballero. Caballero is from Argentina, which was affected by a School of the America graduate, dictator Leopoldo Galtieri, who alledgedly killed 30,000 people in the 1970s ...

On Sunday, the participants marched in the symbolic funeral procession, lead by Father Bourgeois, for those who have been killed by graduates of the School of the Americas ...

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1. I was in Central Amer. when Reagan was supporting Right Wing terrorists from School of the Amer. so

they should go to hell. And Reagan should burn in purgatory a long time for his crimes against humanity.