Pressure is mounting on the US school that has trained some of Latin America's worst human rights abusers. Legislation may see the School of the Americas close after 63 years of controversy.
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) has had many names but is best known as the School of the Americas.
However, the end may be nigh for the “School of Assassins”, as it is also known. The US House of Representatives is debating the suspension of the US training establishment for Latin American and Caribbean military.
If passed, the Latin America Military Training Review Act will also investigate the institution's torture and extrajudicial-killing training manuals, and accusations of human rights abuses connected to it.
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