Campaign Against School of the Americas Lobbies El Salvador

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By Raúl Gutiérrez*

SAN SALVADOR, May 7 (IPS) - Representatives of School of the Americas Watch visited El Salvador to ask the incoming government of the leftwing FMLN, which will take office in June, to stop sending military officers to the U.S. army academy, which has long been accused of teaching torture techniques ...

"The light of our movement was switched on in El Salvador, where the killings of the priests helped open our eyes to the way the U.S. army was using our taxes," Lisa Sullivan, SOA Watch’s Latin America coordinator, told IPS ...

In 1984, then president of Panama Jorge Illueca kicked the SOA out of his country, and it was moved to the army base at Fort Benning, Georgia ...

The SOA Watch activists say they have visited 16 Latin American countries since 2008, meeting with local officials to urge them to withdraw all troops from SOA/WHINSEC ...

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