Actualité - La Bolivie se retire de la School of the Americas

Franc-Parler publie une dépêche de Prensa Latina News Agency à propos du retrait de la Bolivie de la School of the Americas. Cette école militaire aux États-Unis a servi l'entraînement d'officiers militaires impliqués par la suite dans de nombreux cas de coups d'États, de tortures et d'assassinats politiques.

La Paz, Apr 4 (Prensa Latina) - Bolivia, joining Venezuela, Uruguay and Argentina, will gradually pull out its military personnel from the old School of the Americas, an infamous US training facility, it was announced here.

Minister of the Presidency Ramon Quintana made the announcement while replying to a question by Prensa Latina on the recent visit of a US religious delegation who requested Bolivia to withdraw from what has been described as "a school of dictators", where people are trained in repression and killing.

The center was established by the US Armed Forces in the Panama Canal Zone in 1946 with the name of "School of the Americas", and in 2001 it was rechristened as "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation."

According to Quintana, the presence of Bolivian soldiers will be gradually reduced "in the shortest time possible" until total withdrawal.

He indicated that later in the year Bolivia will also step up cooperation mechanisms to allow for the training of its soldiers in South American countries, under a new doctrine of "regional security" to be agreed upon by Evo Morales and ministers of Defense of the area.

(Prensa Latina News Agency)