If you don't know what it is, read this. It's basically a school that trains Latin American assassins and soldiers to go further US interests in South America.

I am against it and beleive it should be shut down. These people are the ones responsible for Allende, Torrijos, Noriega, Arbenz, all of the couped, assassinated, or corrupted South American rulers. The building itself is little more than a monument to imperialism - a sign of how we have caused the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians, the poverty of nations, and the subversion of democracy in order to further 'national security' and to stop the communist 'threat' in South America.

So, what do you all think?

I'd give two votes if I could, one on behalf of my Salvadore friend Jon. It should be disbanded, burned and condemned. Then people should defecate on the remains of the school.

Who voted no? :((

Obviously someone who believes in the Monroe Doctrine. I don't know enough about the topic at the moment to form an educated opinion.

The Monroe Doctrine only justifies our actions in South America through a loophole. The Monroe Doctrine was meant to stop Western European powers from taking back their land in the Americas - they stopped trying to a while ago and the doctrine went unused for a while until the Soviet Union became a threat and communism started spreading. We passed off every leftist country in South America as a Soviet colony, when some (like Chile's Allende) were largely anti-Soviet and anti-imperialist. It was a BS excuse for those wars.

I can't make an educated comment, but just looking at that list of notable graduates I come to the conclusion that the educational value and capacity of this institution is...crap.

Also, FYI, Arbenz was a widely supported Guatemalan president with center-left politics who was against United Fruit control of Guatemala.

The US ousted him not long after he came to power democratically. In short, he was no bastard, and even if he was, he didn't even have time to set up his death squads. He does not belong up in your OP.

No, I was listing leaders who had been taken out of power by graduates from the School of the Americas. They are all respectable, democratically elected leaders. except for Noriega.

Crickey. Sorry about that, you're right then.

It's fine. But I just noticed something - one of the SOA's graduates is named Juan Manuel Sucre Figarella. Here's his article:

Awfully suspicious... :jihad:

Yep, I'm his offspring, sent by the CIA to coup Chávez. See how he's always spewing nonsense about invasions and Bush conspirations and all? I'm the guy he speaks off :P

In all reality, my screenname comes from that very Grand Marshal mentioned in your post. Something of a hero to me.








Or does it? <psy?>