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Support the efforts of indigenous peoples in Peru and elsewhere to expel oil companies from their traditional lands. We call for an end to all police actions against indigenous people in Peru. | Support the efforts of indigenous peoples in Peru and elsewhere to expel oil companies from their traditional lands. We call for an end to all police actions against indigenous people in Peru. | ||
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| + | Close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, at Fort Benning, Georgia. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced to become refugees by the School of the Americas graduates. | ||
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SECTION TITLE: AMERICAS
OUR POSITION: Greens support strengthening human rights in Central America, and the reduction of violence and crime there.
GREEN SOLUTIONS
(1) COLOMBIA
Oppose the growing U.S. military presence in Columbia.
(2) CUBA
End the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba.
(3) HAITI
Help rebuild Haiti, but without strengthening neo-colonialism.
Cancel all Haiti debt to international financial institutions.
(4) MEXICO
Stop arms trafficking from the U.S. to Mexico.
End the war on drugs in Mexico and elsewhere.
(5) PERU
Support the efforts of indigenous peoples in Peru and elsewhere to expel oil companies from their traditional lands. We call for an end to all police actions against indigenous people in Peru.
(6) AMERICAS
Close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, at Fort Benning, Georgia. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced to become refugees by the School of the Americas graduates.
