S.O.A. Watch.

The U.S. Army School of the Americas has been operating in Fort Benning, Georgia, since 1984. Widely derided in Latin America as the "School of Assassins," the Army facility quietly turns out thousands of Latin American and Carribbean graduates each year, many of whom go on to pursue careers as tyrants, dictators, and participants in military coups and massacres in their home countries.

S.O.A. Watch, a newsletter that researches and reports on the School of the Americas and its graduates, grew out of hunger strikes outside the Fort Benning facility in September 1990, after it was discovered that five of the nine Salvadorans responsible for murdering a group of Catholic missionaries that year were S.O.A. graduates.

"Our goal is to shut down the School of the Americas," says the Reverend Roy Bourgeois, who publishes the newsletter with fellow activist and researcher Vicky Imerman. "We hope that this is the year."

S.O.A. Watch has been receiving many phone calls recently, Bourgeois says...