[HNA] SOA graduates and military coups in Honduras and Venezuela at MIT

[Sergio Reyes]

SOA graduates and military coups in Honduras and Venezuela at MIT 
Lisa Sullivan, a long-time activist working to close the School of the Americas (now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation - WHISC or WHINSEC) and the Venezuelan Consul General in Boston, Omar Sierra presented a lecture on "The Involvement of Graduates from the School of the Americas in the Coup d'etat in Honduras and Venezuela. 

Sullivan explained how Fr. Roy Bourgois and her were able to meet first Vice President Rangel in Venezuela and later with President Chavez to request that they stop sending military officers to be trained at the SOA, and succeeded. Ironically, some of the generals that participated in the coup de'etat against Chavez in 2004 were graduates of the SOA. That coup was succesfully reversed by the massive protests that exercised presure on Venezuelan soldiers who joined in the demands to return Chavez to the Presidency. 

(Pictured a groups of participants at the lecture in MIT. Kaveri Rajaraman (holding the sign) was about to complete her one-day liquid fast in solidarity with Honduras.)
 
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