Reply #3: Humala's an SOA graduate.

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‘Dirty War' Allegations Cast Shadow on Nationalist Candidate
Monday, February 20th 2006
Ángel Páez, Inter Press Service News Agency

... Humala, who graduated in 1984 from the military academy in Chorrillos, has not referred to the fact that in 1983, he took a course at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), which was then based in Panama (before moving to Fort Benning, Georgia in 1984).

Tens of thousands of Latin American officers and soldiers have taken courses at the notorious U.S. army institution, where they are trained in combat, counter-insurgency, and counter-narcotics techniques.

In 1996, the U.S. Department of Defence was forced to release training manuals that had been used to instruct Latin American military personnel at the SOA that advocated torture, extortion and execution as counterinsurgency tactics ...

http://www.soaw.org/new/newswire_detail.php?id=1051