SR. DOROTHY KAZEL

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SR. DOROTHY KAZEL JEAN DONOVAN SR. ITA FORD SR.
MAURA CLARKE raped and assassinated in
El Salvador on December 2, 1980
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BISHOP JUAN GERARDI assassinated in Guatemala Ci
ty on April 26, 1998
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EL MOZOTE an estimated 900 civilians
assassinated in El Salvador on December 11, 1980
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Fr. Ignacio Ellacuria SJ Fr. Segundo Montes SJ F
r. Ignacio Martin-Baro SJ Fr. Joaquin Lopez SJ F
r. Amando Quintana SJ Julia Elba Ramos Marisette
Elba Ramos raped and assassinated in El Salvado
r on November 16, 1989
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ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ROMERO assassinated in San Salva
dor on March 24, 1980
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• U.S. military training school for military
  police from Latin America
  
• Started in 1946 in Panama, but was moved to
  Georgia in 1984 because of the Panama Canal
  Treaty
  
• Changed names to the Western Hemisphere Institute
  for Security Cooperation (WHISC) in 2001
  
• Over 60,000 students have taken classes at the
  school
  
• Numerous bills to cut funding to the school have
  come very close to passing in the U.S. House of
  Representatives

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• WHAT IS THE SOAWatch?
• Started in 1990 by Fr. Roy Bourgeois after the
  assassination of the Jesuit priests in El
  Salvador
  
• SOA Watch would like the school to be closed and
  the policies of the United States to be changed
  so that the poor of Latin America are helped and
  not oppressed
• More than 180 people have served over 81 years in
  prison because of acts of civil disobedience
  against the SOA

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U.S. POLICIES THAT HURT THE ECONOMICALLY POOR IN
LATIN AMERICA FREE-TRADE AGREEMENTS ? Indiv
idual farmers cant compete with larger
corporations ? Factory workers wages are forced d
own (creates sweatshops) ? The environment is h
urt by weak laws that promote trade but pollute
STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS (PART OF DEBT RE
LIEF) ? Countries are forced to cut social sp
ending (education, healthcare, etc.)
? Forcing countries to open themselves up to
foreign investment with few
restrictions on corporations MILITARY FUNDING I
NSTEAD OF DEVELOPMENT FUNDING IN COLOMBIA
? Providing significant funds for weapons and tr
oops ? Fumigating for drugs with chemicals that d
estroy other crops cause sickness
? Providing VERY LITTLE funding for social
development projects (ie. schools, healthcare,
water, electric, small farming, etc.)
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