The School of the AmericasLocated at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U. S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat related skills since it was founded in 1946. So widely documented is the participation of the Schools graduates in torture, murder, and political repression throughout Latin America that in 2001 the School officially changed its