|
The School of the Americas is a combat training
school founded in Panama in 1946 as the Latin American Training Center-Ground Division. Renamed the U.S. Army School
of the Americas in 1963, it moved to Fort Benning, Georgia after the signing of the Panama Canal Treaty in 1984. As
a response to intense pressure on Congress to cease funding of the School, it was briefly "closed" in December 2000, before
re-opening the next month with a new name - the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). Despite
the variations in name and location, the SOA's mission has remained the same since its inception.
|
