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Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney spoke to nearly 25,000 activists who gathered to close down the “School of the Americas” aka “School of the Assassins” renamed “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation”, operated by the U.S. Army at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
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For more information on the School of the Americas, please go to: http://www.soaw.org/
An excerpt from the SOA Watch site:
The School of the Americas (SOA) is a U.S. Army training school that trains soldiers and military personnel from Latin American countries in subjects like counter-insurgency, military intelligence and counter-narcotics operations. Under Department of Defense jurisdiction, this school is funded by U.S. taxpayer money, all of the training is conducted in Spanish, and most of the classes are taught by Latin American instructors. According to the SOA itself, more than 60,000 members of Latin American militaries have attended the SOA since its inception in 1946.
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