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Now officially called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), the U.S. military-run training ground for Latin American strongmen and dictators was for years known as the School of the Americas (SOA). The Spanish-language army facility based in Fort Benning, Georgia, was responsible for helping to educate...
Rials disputes the institution's negative reputation and denies that the school - which has trained more than 60,000 soldiers in the last 59 years, the last 22 after relocating from Panama to Georgia - can be linked to any crime. "When [Argentine junta leader] Galtieri was here in 1949, he...
ELECTED. Alan Garcia, 57, President of Peru from 1985 to 1990; to a new term as President, in a victory over fellow leftist Ollanta Humala, an ally of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez; in Lima. By choosing Garcia-whose earlier tenure saw the explosion of guerrilla violence and 7...
ELECTED. Alan Garcia, 57, President of Peru from 1985 to 1990; to a new term as President, in a victory over fellow leftist Ollanta Humala, an ally of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez's; in Lima. By choosing Garcia--whose earlier tenure saw the explosion of guerrilla violence and 7,500...
Whatever his program, Kabila could not be worse than Mobutu, who reduced a nation that should be among the richest in Africa to utter penury. Meanwhile, Mobutu and his cronies looted the treasury of billions of dollars. In addition to his many secret bank accounts, Mobutu owns nine villas in...