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Bolivia to pull out of SOA
National Catholic Reporter, Oct 26, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Oct. 8 that Bolivia will gradually withdraw its, military from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School for the Americas, according to a news release from SOA Watch, an organization dedicated to closing down the institute.
The institute, located at Fort Benning, Ga., is a training school for Latin American military personnel. Human rights groups, like SOA Watch, have linked graduates of the school to human rights abuses.
Bolivia is the fifth country after Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela to formally announce a withdrawal from the school, according to SOA Watch. In March 2006, SOA Watch founder Maryknoll Fr. Roy Bourgeois and Salvadoran torture survivor Carlos Mauricio led a delegation to Latin America where they met to national leaders, like Morales, and talked to them about withdrawing their troops from the school.
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