Father Roy Bourgeois, the Maryknoll priest who founded School of the Americas Watch and has championed human rights in Latin America for decades, will be speaking at I.C.'s Handwerker Gallery. Bourgeois's remarks will include discussion of the recent military coup in Honduras, led by an SOA grad.

From Intercom:

"The School of the Americas, now named the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, in Fort Benning, Georgia, is a US taxpayer-funded institution that trains hundreds of soldiers from Latin America in combat skills. Many brutal Latin American dictators who have ordered and committed brutal killings were trained in these facilities.  In 1990, Father Roy’s founded the School of the Americas Watch to actively keep tabs on the SOA, as well as championing other social causes in Latin America and within the Catholic faith."

Father Roy Bourgeois
"The U.S. and Latin America: Recent Events in Honduras"
Handwerker Gallery
Thursday, September 24 from 10:50 a.m. to noon

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