SOA; Put it to an End!

The School of the Americas, a.k.a. SOA is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers. The SOA was originally established in Panama, but in 1984 because of the Panama Canal Treaty, it was booted out. The SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. Due to this training, the graduates from the School of the Americas are torturing, raping, and assassinating innocent Latin American citizens. For example, on November 16th, 1989, a Salvadoran Army patrol massacred six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador. A number of the members of the Salvadoran Army patrol reportedly received training at the School of the Americas. This combat training school should be shut down because if it were not shut down, more innocent people will suffer the consequences. We have enough problems of our own, here in the United States, and we should solely focus on that.