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Protests against the institution formally known as the School of the Americas(SOA) occur every year at Fort Benning, Georgia. This coming weekend will be no exception as people plan to descend upon the site by the thousands. Additionally simultaneous protests are scheduled to tale place in Santiago de Chile, Bogotá Colombia, San Salvador El Salvador, among others. So what are the protests about? From The Nation:

The SOA has trained more than 60,000 Latin American soldiers in military and law-enforcement tactics. The Pentagon has acknowledged that in the past the SOA used training manuals advocating coercive interrogation methods and extra-judicial executions, and over time SOA alumni have been linked to many of Latin America’s most heinous human rights atrocities, from widespread torture to massacres of young children.

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