Sign petition to Evo Morales - cease sending students to SOA

[stephinrome]

DUers, please read and sign the following new petition to be presented 26 June.

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The campaign to request that the Bolivian Government cease sending Bolivian
soldiers to the School of the Americas has begun to collect signatures in
Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Holland, and the United States. These
signatures will then be formally presented to the Bolivian Government at a
press conference in La Paz on June 26. Ivan Caneles, a Cochabamban Diputado,
will be hosting this press conference along with many other Diputados and
Senators who have joined our campaign. ¡We now have support from over 20
Diputados, many Senators, and even some Bolivian graduates of the SOA!

Please take a moment to add your name to this petition.

To: President Evo Morales

We citizens of the world in solidarity with the Bolivian people, do hereby
sign and make public the following statement:

The School of the Americas is a U.S. military training center that since 1946
has trained over 70,000 Latin American and Caribbean soldiers.

Among their graduates are those responsible for the most notorious cases of
human rights violations on the continent, including Hugo Banzer Suarez, former
dictator of Bolivia, and Robinson Iriarte, sniper in Cochabamba Water War in
2000.

Recently the governments of Venezuela, Uruguay and Argentina declared that
they will no longer send their soldiers to the School of the Americas.

With our signatures we declare:

- We support the campaign to close the School of the Americas.

- We ask the Bolivian government to immediately cease sending Bolivian
soldiers to this military school.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned
In English: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/stopsoa/petition.html

[Dr.Phool]

1. He had better stop sending them there.

They tend to be the ones who come back and assasinate their leaders.

[BrotherBuzz]

2. On the flip side, he might glean information on SOA...

if he selects from loyal patriotic candidates. Know your enemy, and all that.