TAKE ACTION – Base Watch!
1) Local Groups Adopt a Base!! Choose:
·
One of the US military bases in Latin America, or
·
A base in the US sending troops to Latin America.
2)Contact SOAW office for info and resources
Lisa Sullivan: [email protected]
3) And Get R.E.A.L!
R – Research the base
E – Educate your local community about
the base
A – Act to close the base
L – Live out solidarity and justice!
Provisional List of
Foreign bases in Latin
America*
Argentina: In the Malvinas
Islands, occupied by Great
Britain, NATO base in Mount
Pleasant. Aruba: Queen Beatrix
Airbase. Belize: Training area
for British troops. Colombia:
Seven bases, including
Palanquero. Costa Rica: Liberia
and the access to ports by
United States ships. Cuba:
Guantanamo. Curacao: Hato
Rey. El Salvador: Comalapa.
Guadalupe: French military
bases. French Guayana: French
aerospace base at Kourou.
Haití: All of its territory is a big
foreign military base. Honduras:
Soto Cano base in Palmerola and Puerto Lempira. - Martinique: French
bases. Panamá: Awarded 12 bases on both coasts, 4 have been built.
Paraguay - Mariscal Estigarribia y Pedro Juan Caballero. Perú: Santa
Lucia (in Alto Huallaga), Iquitos, Nanay. * Of Rina Bertaccini-Mopassol
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BRIDGES NOT BASES:
Stop the Militarization of Latin America
No + Military Bases, No + Fourth
Fleet, No + SOA
Over the last 20 years, the SOA Watch movement has
worked to close the School of the Americas, which has
destroyed the lives of thousands of people across Latin
America.
The doors of the school have not yet closed, but 4
countries have stopped sending their troops and
hundreds over organizations are petitioning their
governments to do the same. We will not stop until the
doors are closed!
Meanwhile, the SOA has “jumped
the gates” and the same tactics
and targets are being used in diverse forms
throughout the Americas, in the face of increased
US militarization as we see in
- Increase in US military bases in Latin America
- Increase in joint military operations and training in Latin America
- The U.S. Navy Fourth Fleet has, after its discontinuation in 1948,
returned to patrolling the waters of our continent, and
- Militarization of humanitarian and emergency aid
SOMOS UNA AMERICA:
JOIN THE SOA WATCH MOVEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT
LATIN AMERICA IN RESISTING THE SPREAD OF US MILITARIZATION AND
PROMOTING A CULTURE OF PEACE