School of the Americas

It has been said that Americas greatest gift to the world has been its university system, but I'm guessing that the recently overthrown president of Honduras might disagree.  Evidently, "key leaders" of last weekend's military coup in Honduras were trained at the School of the Americas (now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).  Located at Fort Benning, Georgia, the Pentagon-operated school has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in the fine arts of secret policing, death squad killing, and torture.