16 November

16 November 2008 - 12:00am — P and J

On 16 November 1989, six Jesuit priests were murdered, together with their housekeeper and her daughter, by a US-trained death squad in El Salvador.
The United Nations Truth Commission on El Salvador linked the killings to 19 members of the El Salvador armed forces who were graduates of the School of the Americas (SOA), now renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
SOA has trained more than 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counter-insurgency techniques, including (...)

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