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The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly called the School of the Americas, is an Institute of the United States Department of Defense, currently located in Columbus, Georgia, USA, and previously in the Panama Canal Zone.
The school is widely criticized (especially in Latin American countries) for its teaching in tactics such as torture, execution, extortion, and other tactics considered violations of human rights.
In addition, the school is widely known for the fact that many of its graduates are dictators, war criminals or drug traffickers.
Villains graduates of the school:
- Jorge Rafael Videla
- Leopoldo Galtieri
- Roberto Eduardo Viola
- Hugo Banzer
- Luis Arce Gómez
- Raúl Iturriaga
- Manuel Contreras
- Miguel Krassnoff
- Hernán José Guzmán Rodríguez
- Luis Bernardo Urbina Sánchez
- Guillermo Rodríguez
- Roberto D'Aubuisson
- Domingo Monterrosa
- Hector Gramajo
- Efraín Ríos Montt
- Franck Romain
- Luis Alonso Discua Elvir
- Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano
- Arturo Guzmán Decena
- Omar Torrijos
- Manuel Noriega
- Juan Velasco Alvarado
- Vladimiro Montesinos
- Vladimir Padrino López
- Gustavo González López