Costa Rican President, and Nobel Prize winner, Oscar Arias has announced that his country will no longer send police to be trained at the American military's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation*. The institution is notorious for having graduated hundreds or thousands who have been involved in the overthrow of democratically elected governments or who have been charged with or found guilty of serious human rights abuses. Venezuela, Uruguay and Argentina have previously severed relationships with the school.
Who's left? Colombia undoubtedly.
*Note: the school was previously known as the School of the Americas. It's association with right wing Latin American juntas and death squads was so heavily publicised that the US Army was forced to take the dramatic reaction of changing its name to WHISC.
Who's left? Colombia undoubtedly.
*Note: the school was previously known as the School of the Americas. It's association with right wing Latin American juntas and death squads was so heavily publicised that the US Army was forced to take the dramatic reaction of changing its name to WHISC.
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