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Also known as the School of the Americas, located in Fort Benning, Georgia. Among its alumni are many of Latin America's most notorious torturers, mass murderers and dictators. They include: Roberto D'Aubuisson, identified as the United Nations truth commission on El Salvador as leader of the deaths squads there. Argentina's dictators Roberto Viola and Leopoldo Galtieri; Panama's Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos; Peru's Juan Velasco Alvarado; Ecuador's Guillermo Rodriguez; the leader of the Grupo Colina death squad in Fujimori's Peru and many more. WHISC was accused to have been involved in the VenezuelaPlot. In May 2002, Otto Reich (->) has been named to the Board of Visitors at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Reich had a controversial past. As a US ambassador to Venezuela, Reich used his office to help Orlando Bosch, a known terrorist, get into the US. Bosch was convicted of firing a bazooka at a freighter in Miami, and accused of bombing a Cuban jet, killing 73 people.
More infos on the WHISC at soaw.org (->).