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File Name | S21-Policy-Stoa-33-NEG-WHINSEC.docx |
File Size | 55.50 KB |
Date added | May 25, 2021 |
Category | Archived |
Tags | Season 21 |
Plan eliminates “WHINSEC” – the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. WHINSEC is the rebranding/replacement (started around 2002) for the “School of the Americas” (SOA), which was a federally funded military training program that brought in members of Latin American countries’ armed forces for training. Some SOA trainees then went back to their home countries (like El Salvador) and started killing people and abusing human rights, which gave SOA a bad reputation. But WHINSEC did massive reform. Activists write articles complaining that WHINSEC should be shut down because it’s the same thing as SOA, but they’re really just mad that WHINSEC reformed instead of closing down like they wanted. Today, out of 238 military training programs the US government has that train Latin American soldiers, WHINSEC is the only one that upholds human rights. How odd that AFF picks that 1 to shut down and leaves the other 237 that are all worse alternatives. WHINSEC isn’t even the biggest US training school for Lat. American soldiers – that would be the William J. Perry Center, which doesn’t have the safeguards and transparency WHINSEC has.