At least two leaders of the coup launched in Honduras today were apparently trained at a controversial Department of Defense school based at Fort Benning, Georgia infamous for producing graduates linked to torture, death squads and other human rights abuses.
Leftist President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped and transported to Costa Rica this morning after a growing controversy over a vote concerning term limits. Over the last week, Zelaya clashed with and eventually dismissed General Romeo Vasquez — who is now reportedly in charge of the armed forces that abducted the Honduran president.
According to the watchdog group School of Americas Watch, Gen. Vasquez trained at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at least twice — in 1976 and 1984 — when it was still called School of Americas.
The Georgia-based U.S. military school is infamous for training over 60,000 Latin American soldiers, including infamous dictators, “death squad” leaders and others charged with torture and other human rights abuses. SOA Watch’s annual protest to shut down the Fort Benning training site draws thousands.According to SOA Watch, the U.S. Army school has a particularly checkered record in Honduras, with over 50 graduates who have been intimately involved in human rights abuses. In 1975, SOA Graduate General Juan Melgar Castro became the military dictator of Honduras. From 1980-1982 the dictatorial Honduran regime was headed by yet another SOA graduate, Policarpo Paz Garcia, who intensified repression and murder by Battalion 3-16, one of the most feared death squads in all of Latin America (founded by Honduran SOA graduates with the help of Argentine SOA graduates).
General Vasquez isn’t the only leader in the Honduras coup linked to the U.S. training facility. As Kristin Bricker points out:
The head of the Air Force, Gen. Luis Javier Prince Suazo, studied in the School of the Americas in 1996. The Air Force has been a central protagonist in the Honduran crisis. When the military refused to distribute the ballot boxes for the opinion poll, the ballot boxes were stored on an Air Force base until citizens accompanied by Zelaya rescued them. Zelaya reports that after soldiers kidnapped him, they took him to an Air Force base, where he was put on a plane and sent to Costa Rica.
For previous Facing South coverage of controversy surrounding the School of Americas/Western Hemisphere Center, see here.

June 28th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
isnt the NWO spreadin themselves a little thin? or are they actually taking everything over according to plan???
lessgov2007.blogspot.com Reply:
June 28th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
It’s called making a deal with the devil.
SCHOOL OF AMERICAS Reply:
June 29th, 2009 at 12:06 am
train em good boys, so they keep the freedom lovers, er i mean communists, uh terrorists – f*** it = anyone who doesn’t want to be a complete slave, at bay
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June 29th, 2009 at 1:20 am
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June 29th, 2009 at 1:54 am
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June 28th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Am I stupid or is this the greatest thing ever the people taking back their country?
Why no comments? Let\s start talking to our enlisted.
Unconquered Reply:
June 29th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Um, did you read the story? Or even the headline? You might want to start there.
Rocky Horror Reply:
June 29th, 2009 at 10:26 am
um when i read a story i don’t believe to begin with and it doesn’t matter who the reporter is.
propaganda is everywhere and i don’t trust anyone.
who knows who was on the right side there…
i don’t believe anything i hear and only 10% of what i see…
monksphere Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I think its more complicated than it seems. I was in Honduras just a few weeks ago and the tension was high. President Zelaya was really ruining the economy and his plan to help the poor out backfired and actually caused more unemployment. I think a majority of the would support the coup. The scarier issues is who leads next. Obama actually spoke out against the coup; however, how on earth is the US not involved when they have a military base in Honduras and Gen Vasquez having such close tie to the US. I think the US Gov. is playing both sides. I don’t know its kind of confusing to me. Sadly, I think either way, once again, it is the people who get screwed and the oligarchies win.
Roger Cantrell Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 10:01 am
It is not scary at all about who leads next. As in the US the constitution dictates the order of succession. I am an ex-pat living in Honduras and myself as well as over 200 of my friends, ex-pats and Hondurans cannot believe the mis-information being spread by the international press and are very dis-heartened by the actions of the international community. I do not know w#one person in Honduras that wants Mel Zelaya to return as president. He has been trafficking in drugs by allowing the narco planes from Venezuela, he has robbed the country blind and with teh support of Chavez he attempted illegally to change the constitution to allow himself to be president for life. Changing the constitution in Honduras is not an easy or quick thing to do nor should it be.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
The hell of it is, ITS NOT THE PEOPLE TAKING OVER,
it’s the same damned NWO/World Bank hijackers
WHO ARE TAKING US OVER!
They can always find poor stupid stool-pigeons who
will do anything for money, (unfortunately many of
those seem to be in our own military).
June 28th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Where are the few good men???
Who will stand up when witnessing this tyranny?
Military men need to start taking heed to what their orders mean for them and their families!!!
June 28th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
This doesn’t suprise me at all- hell when I was in the service I remember several foreign officers training along side of the other Marines at TBS and IOC, one really nice guy named Hussein Edie- Chebbi from Tunisia- good cat. But I digress. Im not suprised to find out that the higher level officers trained at our military installations, hell its been going on since bfore this whole WART (WAR on Terror) grew on our national ass. This is not suprising at all, I guessI should have seen it then- but these are probably the officers that will be used against us when the whole “plan” goes hot.
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June 29th, 2009 at 2:55 am
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June 29th, 2009 at 3:43 am
Let’s get it straight:
What is going on in Honduras too is what the people of USA never did to the point of disciplining a president who breaks the law, people really standing up for their constitution and the rule of law via their reps, those inside the military and congress etc. representing the interests of the people, removing potential dictators when they are acting like they are above the constitution……[i]“for our own good”[/i] or to [i]“protect you from the ‘terrorists’.”[/i]…..
Now I suppose elements of the Left-Right- Illusion struggle is in gear as always,…. but the love of money is the root of ALL evil and that root starts with power money brings, and with more power comes another root of wanting more control. These ills are in the hearts of many in poverty all the way to those the top. Its’ a ‘heart’ issue problem.
As the roots of power and control roots swell to never ending satisfaction, other roots stream off these two, roots of [i]‘new pleasures and new experiences’[/i] that grow in luxury according to how money can afford.
The UN and World Bank is Honduras, BUT listen closely, the people of Honduras don’t drink fluoride and they cherish the Word of Jesus Christ. They know of the pilgrims at Plymouth rock and The ROCK’s (Jesus Christ) Kingdom principles prevails in Honduras.
AND cops don’t taze and shoot people in Honduras. They don’t carry tazers, just guns. Any citizen may carry a 9 mm too!!!, and it must be concealed and carry it practically anywhere except in a bank where you have to leave it in a locker.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:45 am
A military coup. Hmmm. Now there’s an idea. I’ve heard rumors.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:08 am
didnt noreaga come from this boarding school?
June 29th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Haha a military coup huh? Just like 9/11 by the 100 year old rogue network duh.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Wouldn’t surprise me if there is something to be had in Honduras. I believe they’d like to extend their influence into South America. Possibly get it to join the North American Union.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:32 am
The CIA involved in a Central American coup! http://www.openyoureyesnews.com/?tag=cia Whatever next? Next you are going to say is that Barack Obama isn’t the second coming……..
June 29th, 2009 at 8:59 am
bless America
June 29th, 2009 at 9:05 am
CIA
See no evil
Hear no evil
Speak no evil
All coms are down
Barack plays dumb
Obama misdirection “backs” Zelaya
June 29th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Whoa, hold on here. The events in Honduras are being misrepresented in this story, big time. There is no mention here that President Zelaya was trying to usurp the Honduran Constitution, which gives authority for referendum votes to their Congress, not their President. No mention that both the Congress AND their Supreme Court ruled against Zelaya’s unconstitutional moves, or that the military was ordered to protect the Constitution by securing the ballots, which Zelaya had imported from Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela in order to bypass the authority of Congress and the Supreme Court. And, instead of hearing that Zelaya led a group of civilians which broke into the military storage facility to steal the imported and illegal ballots, we get this:
“When the military refused to distribute the ballot boxes for the opinion poll, the ballot boxes were stored on an Air Force base until citizens accompanied by Zelaya rescued them.”
This is the kind of reporting I expect to hear from the US MSM. And just like we have our own US President steamrolling over the US Constitution, I’m glad to see that at least in Honduras the rule of law is still in effect. God help us to regain that Spirit in America.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:23 am
I bet if there were a military coup in the US, the idea of queers getting married would die pretty quickly. Along with a lot of queers.
4w578i Reply:
June 29th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I don’t see why individualists count on solidarity from the collective.
Most of society enables degeneracy without quota enforcement, and most gun owners act as deputies of the neocons.
This is not to mention the shameless liberals, who feel they must protect themselves from persecution, or the self righteous who are always at variance with one another.
Shared interests are few and far between, even amongst neighbors.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Their agents are allowed to troll the most popular, Churchianity-themed forums.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Their president was trying to change their constitution and become a life-long dictator.
The military there did the right thing.
I wonder if it will ever come to that here?
June 29th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Why does the US get brought into every coup or rebellion in the world? Aren’t people in other countries quite capable of uprisings on their own?
4w578i Reply:
June 29th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Their uprisings cost money, and so did America’s.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
yeah but if we don’t do something soon we might not live to see tomorrow watch what happen to this guy when you don’t act fast enough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LQvVx76mxE remember a good defence is a good offence, the first one to strike has the upper hand and
the element of surprise