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Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

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The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly the School of the Americas, is a U.S. training center for dictators and torturers located in Fort Moore, Georgia. It has trained 84,000 Latin American police officers and soldiers and 16 heads of state.[1]

History[edit | edit source]

The School of the Americas was founded in 1948 in Panama and was expelled from Panama 1984.[1]

Torture manuals[edit | edit source]

In 1996, the DOD released the school's training manuals, almost 1,200 pages long, which describe how to torture and kill dissidents, especially communists. The manuals identify people who refuse to pay rent or taxes, strike, protest, criticize the police or courts, sign petitions, or complain about poor living conditions as "communists."

The school often kidnapped civilians from Panama to use as torture subjects.[1]

Famous graduates[edit | edit source]

Dictators[edit | edit source]

Others[edit | edit source]

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