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S.O.A.: Exporting Democracy or Terror?
September 16, 1998
Manuals that teach torture have been used to train Latin American soldiers at the U.S. Army School of the Americas according to a recent admission by the Department of Defense. Some graduates of the school have been linked to human rights violations, including the massacre of 900 men women and children in a village in El Salvador in the early 1980's.
On this program we take a look at the School of the Americas, known to its critics as the School of Assassins. You'll also hear an exchange between activists and the school's new commandante, Col. Glenn Weidner.
Featuring:
Audio excerpt from the film, "School of Assassins", produced by Robert Richter, narrated by Susan Sarandon; Father Roy Bourgeois and Archbishop Oscar Romero, anti-SOA activists, Col. Glenn Weidner, new commander of the School of the Americas; Carol Richardson, director, School of the Americas Watch.