Image problem.The U.S. Army has developed a comprehensive plan to deflect de·flectintr. & tr.v. de·flect·ed, de·flect·ing, de·flects To turn aside or cause to turn aside; bend or deviate. [Latin d criticism of the School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC or WHINSEC), formerly the School of the Americas (SOA; Spanish: Escuela de las Américas), is a United States Army facility at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia. , reports the National Catholic Reporter. Internal documents reveal the military spent nearly $250,000 to track media coverage of the school, to create letters to the editor to counter negative views, and to track the comings and goings of Father Roy Bourgeois Reverend Father Roy Bourgeois, M.M. is an American priest in the Maryknoll order of the Roman Catholic Church and founder of the human rights group SOA Watch. Early life Bourgeois was born in Lutcher, Louisiana in 1938. , who started the School of the Americas Watch School of the Americas Watch is an advocacy organization founded by Maryknoll Fr. Roy Bourgeois and a small group of supporters in 1990 to protest the training of mainly Latin American military officers, by the United States Army, at the School of the Americas (SOA). fifteen years ago. |
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