Argentina and Uruguay shun US military academy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/argentina/story/0,,1747880,00.html
Duncan Campbell
Thursday April 6, 2006
The Guardian
Two Latin American countries are to stop sending troops for training to
a controversial military academy in the US.
The move was welcomed by groups that have been campaigning against the
academy since it was accused, in its previous incarnation, of training
Latin American soldiers in illegal interrogation techniques.
The defence ministers of Argentina and Uruguay have decided to stop
sending soldiers to train at the Western Hemisphere Institute for
Security Cooperation (Whinsec), the military academy based at Fort
Benning, Georgia, according to a statement by a Washington-based
organisation, School of the Americas Watch. In the past both countries
regularly sent soldiers to Fort Benning for training.
Argentina
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Uruguay
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