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School of the Americas 24^th Vigil

Diego Lopez, Guatemala. Presente!
Francisca Chavez, El Salvador. Presente!

(COLUMBUS, Ga) - We tearfully placed the man and the baby’s little wooden crosses into the cyclone fence, one of three barbed-wired steal barriers separating thousands of peace-makers from the war-makers at Fort Benning, Georgia.

School of the Americas (SOA) Watch Vigil, the 24^th since 1990, drew me from Denmark, my friend James from Ensenada, Mexico, and upwards to 3000 others from across the United States, Canada, and Latin American countries to protest in front of this key US Army combat-counter-insurgency training base.

Obama in El Salvador

With the resurgence of right-wing death squads and paramilitaries in Honduras, Central American citizens may be forgiven for being less than enthused by Obama’s promise yesterday.

(ISTANBUL) - As part of his visit to El Salvador yesterday, the last stop on a Latin American excursion occurring despite events in Japan and Libya, Barack Obama visited the tomb of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, assassinated on March 24, 1980.

Observers have noted that the current bombing of Libya began on the same date as the start of the Iraq war eight years ago.