{"id":955,"date":"2009-10-22T15:10:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=393"},"modified":"2009-10-22T15:10:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:10:48","slug":"school-of-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"School of the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just watched a documentary on the School of the America’s (SOA)<\/em>. \u00a0 This is a facility for training Latin American soldiers. \u00a0 It’s based in Georgia. \u00a0 The documentary stated that often the poor in Latin America who “cry out for justice” are labeled insurgents. \u00a0 And military, or para-military, “death squads” are sent in to terrorize villages to quell the protests. \u00a0 For instance, SOA trained Contras killed scores of peasants in Nicaragua. \u00a0 Bishop Oscar Romero (who quite vocally spoke up for the poor), was killed by two soldiers trained at the School of the America’s. \u00a0 The Pentagon has admitted that these Latin American soldiers are trained to torture, kidnap and assassinate, according to the documentary. \u00a0 There was a “Kennedy Amendment” to close the SOA. \u00a0 It failed by a relatively close margin. \u00a0 Our administration would work to close the SOA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just watched a documentary on the School of the America’s (SOA). \u00a0 This is a facility for training Latin American soldiers. \u00a0 It’s based in Georgia. \u00a0 The documentary stated that often the poor in Latin America who “cry …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}