Following on from this post
According to the WHINSEC site WHINSEC has nothing to do with the illustrious Shool of the Americas:
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) was established by the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, signed by President Bill Clinton on October 30, 2000.This despite being located in the same town, Fort Benning, Georgia, having been founded in 2001, shortly after the closure in 2000 of the Scholl of the Americas, and having the same purpose which is to provide professional education and training to eligible personnel of Western Hemisphere nations (WHINSEC),or in order to ensure the
success of U.S. National Security Objectives in the Hemisphere (SOA).
According to the SOA site, human rights were high on it's agenda:
In all courses at the U.S. Army School of the Americas, human rights awareness is stressed and integrated into every program
For WHINSEC,
Two broad principles of the OAS, essential to the mission of the WHINSEC, are to ensure peace of the Western Hemisphere and promote human welfare through inter-American cooperation that is fully grounded in International law.According to WIKIPEDIA, the free encyclopedia,
Graduates of the SOA include men such as Hugo Banzer Suárez, Leopoldo Galtieri, Manuel Noriega, Efraín Ríos Montt, Vladimiro Montesinos, Guillermo Rodríguez, Omar Torrijos, Roberto Viola and Juan Velasco Alvarado.Comments welcome.