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Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)
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Common Dreams
April 3, 2018
Four years before the coup, Rios Montt graduated from the US Army School of the Americas (SOA), also known as the " School of coups" and "school of assassins" because it produced so many of both. SOA students, who included future dictators Manuel Noriega, Leopoldo Galtieri and Hugo Banzer, ...
The Spokesman-Review
April 1, 2018
He attended the U.S. School of the Americas in the 1950s, and became a brigadier general in 1972. Rios Montt first ran for president in 1974 but lost amid allegations of electoral fraud and was sent to the Guatemalan Embassy in Spain as military attache. In March 1982, he seized power in a military coupÃÂ ...
International Policy Digest
March 31, 2018
There is an ongoing debate in Washington about the U.S. defense budget and the future of U.S. military operations around the world, whether it is President Donald Trump questioning NATO or operations in Afghanistan, Iraq or other places. Another pillar of U.S. military presence around the world areÃÂ ...
WLTZ 38 NBC
March 22, 2018
Staff Sergeant Rodny Yefune serves as a small group leader at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. SSG Yefune has served in numerous leadership roles to include sniper team leader, battalion master gunner and platoon sergeant. In his role at WHINSEC, Yefune uses his infantryÃÂ ...
Upside Down World
March 15, 2018
Billy Joya, for example, former head of Battalion 3-16 and a graduate of the U.S. School of the Americas, was a top aide to de facto president Roberto Micheletti. Amid a spike in nighttime raids, targeted criminalization, political murders, and other abuses since the Nov. 26 election, human rights groups haveÃÂ ...
Indiana Daily Student
March 5, 2018
Many Salvadorian officials who carried out extrajudicial killings and assassinations of dissidents were trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas. Later implicated in thousands more civilian deaths, this so-called Atlacatl battalion, named after a legendary Salvadoran ruler, contained nearly 7000ÃÂ ...
Dialogo Americas (blog)
August 8, 2017
... Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, hosted a change-of-command ceremony on July 19th, in front of Bradley Hall, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) headquarters, to pass the institute's colors from U.S. Army Colonel Keith W. Anthony to Colonel RobertÃÂ ...
WTVM
July 19, 2017
FORT BENNING, GA (WTVM) – A change in leadership Wednesday at Fort Benning, as a new commander was installed at WHINSEC, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. ... WHINSEC specializes in democracy, ethics and human rights training for nations in the Western Hemisphere.
Dialogo Americas (blog)
July 18, 2017
“This course differentiated itself from the rest because it was 40 percent female [54], the highest percentage of women yet seen at WHINSEC. ... The Dominican Air Force sent 11 cadets to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia, to take the Cadet LeadershipÃÂ ...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
July 12, 2017
Keith Anthony relinquishes command of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in front of Bradley Hall next week. Col. Robert F. Alvaro takes ... The institute opened at Fort Benning in January 2001 after the former School of the Americas closed in December 2000. The institute providesÃÂ ...
Dialogo Americas (blog)
May 18, 2017
Two “firsts” were achieved when the first Peruvian Army Senior Enlisted Advisor, William Villacorta, was installed as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation's (WHINSEC) International Command Sergeant Major (CSM) in the first Change of Responsibility ceremony for the internationalÃÂ ...
Dialogo Americas (blog)
May 3, 2017
Almost each year since 1994, Civil Affairs students from the School of the Americas and then from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) have played a central role in the Columbus Emergency Management Agency's disaster response exercises. In preparation for theÃÂ ...
The Nation.
February 1, 2018
This could be true of any civil-society group, but the FBI doesn't monitor just any group. It singles out for counterterrorism investigation groups like the anti-war School of the Americas Watch or the Occupy Wall Street movement. Just as was true in the time of J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI has an institutional biasÃÂ ...
San Antonio Express-News
January 26, 2018
A San Antonio native, he attended schools in North East Independent School District, graduating from the International School of the Americas, a magnet school. During his interview with the board Thursday, Mungia said his priorities as a trustee would include promoting transparency, helping theÃÂ ...
NACLA
January 19, 2018
... shoe marks, hair samples, bullet shells— of the mass killing at El Mozote pointed to elite Salvadoran soldiers trained in places like Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, Georgia, formerly known as the notorious “School of the Americas.” Evidence from recent Salvadoran and international court cases corroboratesÃÂ ...
International Policy Digest
January 10, 2018
Latin America and the Caribbean have specifically been a region subject to foreign influence and internal conflict dating as far back to initial European conquest, to Operation Condor, School of the Americas – Fort Gullick era, banana republic civil wars, the popularized Colombian drug cartel wars of theÃÂ ...
Q Costa Rica News
January 3, 2018
The School of the Americas Watch, SOA Watch, says that the government is falsely accusing Moreno, and several other human rights activists in Honduras of having ties to “narcotrafficking” in order to “detract” from Moreno's work. Moreno has been an outspoken critic of Hernandez, whom Moreno said hasÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
December 5, 2017
While reporting indicated that police officers were also striking in order to receive better wages and treatment from their superiors, a member of the elite Cobras unit—many of whom have been trained by U.S. military operators at the infamous School of the Americas or its descendants—said there was moreÃÂ ...
Dialogo Americas (blog)
August 8, 2017
... Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, hosted a change-of-command ceremony on July 19th, in front of Bradley Hall, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) headquarters, to pass the institute's colors from U.S. Army Colonel Keith W. Anthony to Colonel RobertÃÂ ...
WTVM
July 19, 2017
FORT BENNING, GA (WTVM) – A change in leadership Wednesday at Fort Benning, as a new commander was installed at WHINSEC, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. ... WHINSEC specializes in democracy, ethics and human rights training for nations in the Western Hemisphere.
Dialogo Americas (blog)
July 18, 2017
“This course differentiated itself from the rest because it was 40 percent female [54], the highest percentage of women yet seen at WHINSEC. ... The Dominican Air Force sent 11 cadets to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia, to take the Cadet LeadershipÃÂ ...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
July 12, 2017
After more than three years at Fort Benning, Col. Keith Anthony relinquishes command of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in front of Bradley Hall next week. Col. Robert F. Alvaro takes over as the sixth commandant of the institute during a 9 a.m. Wednesday ceremony hosted byÃÂ ...
Dialogo Americas (blog)
May 3, 2017
Almost each year since 1994, Civil Affairs students from the School of the Americas and then from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) have played a central role in the Columbus Emergency Management Agency's disaster response exercises. In preparation for theÃÂ ...
Buffalo Bulletin
December 31, 1999
The School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia – a combat school that trained terrorists who returned to their own countries in Latin America to perpetrate ... and labor organizers – was so notorious that in 2001 the Congress renamed it Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC).
National Catholic Reporter
December 31, 1999
Longtime observers of Central America will know that since the 1980s, nearly 5,000 officers from Honduras have been trained at the U.S. Army's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or WHINSEC, formerly known as the School of the Americas. Graduates of this school hold key positionsÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
Now a fugitive, he is a former colonel and a graduate of the School of the Americas, and just one of many in a party 'dominated by military officers.' All the same, U.S. support constitutes a pinprick of the world's population. Consider on one side Nikki Haley and the United States with its immense economicÃÂ ...
courierjournal
December 31, 1999
Each year he teaches a course at the Bible School of the Americas in Panama and implements Future Minister Training camps for young men throughout Latin America. Thus far, camps have been started in Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and the Dominican RepublicÃÂ ...
Workers World
December 14, 2017
And the military obey them, because they were trained by them at the School of the Americas. It now has another name, but the graduates are throughout Latin America. … “That's how the history of this country has been. They run the transnationals, private sector, the churches, the major media — not justÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
December 6, 2017
While reporting indicated that police officers were also striking in order to receive better wages and treatment from their superiors, a member of the elite Cobras unit—many of whom have been trained by U.S. military operators at the infamous School of the Americas or its descendants—said there was more ...
Arizona State University
November 14, 2017
While stationed with the U.S. Army School of the Americas in the Panama Canal Zone during the 1970s, entomology expedition leader Albert ...
National Catholic Reporter
November 14, 2017
... Watch works to close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly known as the School of the Americas, ...
WRBL
November 8, 2017
COLUMBUS, Ga. — For the first time ever in nearly 30 years, the School of the Americas Watch annual protest, will not happen this year.
Loyola Phoenix
November 8, 2017
... the United States Army “School of the Americas” (SOA) in Fort Benning, ... the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001, ...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
November 7, 2017
For the first time in the history of the annual School of the Americas ... for closing the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at ...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
November 1, 2017
... to review the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation's ... The institute operated as the School of the Americas from 1984 to ...
Nogales International
October 20, 2017
If a Nobel Peace Prize were to be awarded specifically for the militarized U.S.-Mexico border, I couldn't think of a more deserving recipient than ...
San Antonio Express-News
October 20, 2017
Since 2011, Sprott has taught Advanced Placement world history and humanities electives at the International School of the Americas, ...
Dialogo Americas (blog)
October 20, 2017
“This training is a condensed course from what is taught at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation[WHINSEC located at Ft.
WTVM
October 13, 2017
FORT BENNING, GA (WTVM) - International students, their families and Fort Benning soldiers are celebrated diversity and culture Friday ...
San Antonio Express-News
October 10, 2017
... STEM Academy, a magnet program at the campus along with the International School of the Americas and the North East School of the Arts.
FOX 29
October 2, 2017
Current examples within NEISD include Academy of Creative Education and International School of the Americas. Name submissions should ...
The Advocate
September 28, 2017
The school is run by the U.S. Department of Defense and it is now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation or ...
WLTZ 38 NBC
September 27, 2017
... is trained as a military police officer where he currently serves as an instructor at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
FOX 29
September 19, 2017
Current examples within NEISD include Academy of Creative Education and International School of the Americas. Name submissions should ...
Dialogo Americas (blog)
August 8, 2017
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation bid farewell to U.S. Army Col. Keith W. Anthony and welcomed Col. Robert F. Alvaro ...
WTVM
July 19, 2017
... Wednesday at Fort Benning, as a new commander was installed at WHINSEC, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
Dialogo Americas (blog)
July 18, 2017
Dominican Cadets Train at WHINSEC ... Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) to prepare for leadership positions.
Dialogo Americas (blog)
May 3, 2017
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation paired ... Civil Affairs students from the School of the Americas and then from the ...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
... the training of murderous dictators at the US-based School of the Americas, the handing of lists of thousands of communist sympathisers and ...
The Daily Dot
December 31, 1999
Current examples within NEISD include Academy of Creative Education and International School of the Americas. Name submissions should ...
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