Wonderful News!

[donsu]

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0328-15.htm

Uruguay & Argentina Cease Training at U.S. Army’s School of the Americas

Defense Ministers of Both Countries Cite SOA Legacies of Torture and Social Repression in Meetings with Human Rights Advocates; Congress Soon to Decide Fate of Controversial Pentagon School


This week two South American countries sent a strong message of support for human rights and military accountability by ceasing all military training of their troops at the controversial U.S. Army’s School of the Americas. Nilda Garré, the Defense Minister of Argentina, and Azucena Berrutti, Uruguay’s Minister of Defense, decided this week to stop sending soldiers from their countries to train at the military school based at Fort Benning, Georgia and now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (SOA/ WHINSEC).

The critical decisions by the two countries followed meetings with Uruguayan & Argentinean human rights groups and the SOA Watch activists church worker Lisa Sullivan, torture survivor Carlos Mauricio and Maryknoll priest Reverend Roy Bourgeois.

“Everywhere we’ve traveled this month in South America, we’ve been amazed to realize that people are fully aware of the reality of the School of the Americas,” said Sullivan. “They have experienced firsthand the horrors of the tortures, detentions, imprisonments and ‘disappearances’ caused by its graduates.”

Argentina and Uruguay become the second and third countries to announce a cessation of training at the SOA/ WHINSEC. In January of 2004, Hugo Chavez announced that Venezuela would no longer send troops to train at the school.
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this is so wonderful, words fail me

[Warpy]

1. YES YES YES!!

An end to right wing dictatorships in Central and South America will cause the School of the Assassins to wither and die for lack of enrolees, unless they fill it with future terrorists from the middle east.

Unfortunately, its legacy will live on in its graduates, always willing to try to overthrow leftist democracies in favor of new military dictatorships fronting for the oligarchies.

I hope the oligarchies themselves are next on the list.

[radio4progressives]

2. This is indeed great news, it's taken so long to get here..

i just have to wonder where and how the Pentagon will continue this program illegally or off the radar screen.. i hope people are skeptical but i'm very happy to read that this program will no longer be sanctioned by South American countries..

[TroglodyteScholar]

3. I'm quite surprised...

...surprised that this isn't ALL OVER the DAMN LIBERAL media. :eyes:

But good news, definitely. Thanks for the good post.

[donsu]

4. what about the protesters at the school that they jailed?

are they still in jail?