To learn more or get involved, contact SOA Watch, PO Box 4566, Washington, DC 20017. Check their website for the latest info: http://www.soaw.org/ Postcard printed on recycle paper. The following information is NOT printed on this postcard: The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC or WHINSEC), formerly the School of the Americas is a United States Department of Defense facility at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia in the United States. Between 1946 and 2001, the SOA trained more than 61,000 Latin American soldiers and policemen. A number of them became notorious for human rights violations, including generals Leopoldo Galtieri, Efraín Ríos Montt and Manuel Noriega, dictators such as Bolivia's Hugo Banzer, some of Augusto Pinochet's officers, and the founders of Los Zetas, a mercenary army for one of Mexico's largest drug trafficking organizations, the Gulf Cartel. Luis Posada Carriles was educated there in 1961, although he never graduated. Critics of the school argue that the education encouraged such internationally recognized human rights violating practices and that this continues in the WHINSEC.