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NO MORE STUDENTS TO SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS, SAYS COSTA RICA'S PRESIDENT.

Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
Publication Date: 31-MAY-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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In the quietest way possible, with neither fanfare nor ballyhoo, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has agreed not to send any more Costa Rican police to the infamous US School of the Americas (SOA). Arias cited the school's history of involvement in military coups and human rights abuses in...

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...throughout Latin America deciding that, when the last three of the country's police have graduated, no more will be sent to the US Army's school at Fort Benning, Georgia. The 1987 Nobel Peace Prize winner made the decision after talks with a delegation from School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch), led by the Rev. Roy Bourgeois and Lisa Sullivan Rodriguez.

The SOA is now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). The name change was part of a sanitizing program aimed at keeping the SOA from being closed down. Under whatever name, the institution has trained...

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