>>Their information is out of date. It isn't the school of the americans any longer, it is the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and is basically used to train Latin American soldiers in combat, counterinsurgency and counter-narcotics.
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>But it's still the place the wannabe dictators and henchmen would choose as a stepping stone in their careers, right?
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>Sounds like Blackwater now being called Xe. A rose of any other name...

"Sounds like" and "are" - two different things. One is opinion not based on any knowledge or fact. It may be. It may not be. Perfectly understandable to question.

Critics of the school argue that the education encouraged such internationally recognized human rights violating practices and that the WHINSEC is merely a new name for exactly the same practices. This is denied by the SOA/WHINSEC and its supporters, who claim they now emphasize democracy and human rights

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation

Only an attendee can verify...