School of the Americas: Still Funded
School of the Americas, where they train murderers and torturers. And what graduates they have:
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Former Salvadoran army officer Gonzalo Guevara Cerritos, convicted for the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper and her 14-year-old daughter, was arrested by federal agents on October 18 in Los Angeles, California.Gonzalo Guevara Cerritos, a sub-lieutenant in the notorious Atlacatl Battalion, took part in the November 16, 1989 massacre at the Central American University (UCA) in San Salvador. Less than a year before the brutal killings, Guevara Cerritos received military training at the U.S. Army School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
Murdered Jesuits in El Salvador
11/26
Ex-Chilean military officer Enrique Sandoval has confessed to the murder of the first underage victim of the military dictatorship in Chile, fourteen year old Carlos Faria Oyarce. The confession comes as part of a trial led by Judge Zepeda. Enrique Sandoval and Com. Lopez Almarza have been convicted for kidnapping and murder and could face prison sentences.Carlos Faria Oyarce was kidnapped from his home in La Pincoya on October 13, 1973 and was killed execution style by three bullets to the head; his body was then burned and buried in an undisclosed location becoming one of Chile?s many disappeared and one of the 79 underage children who fell victim to the brutal regime led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. His body was found during an excavation in the West end of Santiago on July 30th, 2000.
A few months prior to the murder and the military coup of September 11, 1973, Enrique Sandoval had attended the Schools of the Americas, then located in Panama.
American nuns, murdered by death squads in El Salvador
and on it goes…
The vote was 214-203. I sure want to know which Pennsylvania Democrats voted to continue funding this abomination, this shameful school of murder.
Ah, that would be the odious Chris Carney, hometown hero Pat Murphy (polishing up his progressive cred, no doubt), Jack Murtha, and Joe “No Act Blue, I’m really sorry for my vote” Sestak.
Way to go guys, way to go! You voted to continue this
and this, and this
