Progressive organizations are also critical of US policies. In a June 18 statement SOA Watch, a US-based group that tracks abuses by Latin American military officers trained at the US Armys School of the Americas (SOA, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, WHINSEC), noted that the increases in unauthorized migration from Honduras followed the SOA-graduate led coup in that country on June 28, 2009, almost exactly five years before Bidens 2014 visit. The current humanitarian crisis on the border is a direct result of the drastic US-led militarization of the drug war [in Central America and Mexico], unequal economic relationships (e.g. Free Trade Agreements that have ravaged campesino communities), and US support for the cartel-infiltrated post-coup government of Honduras, SOA Watch charged. The group encourages US residents to sign a petition to the US Congress to end the counterproductive funding of the Drug War and the corrupt Honduran regime (accessible here). (SOA Watch, June 18, via Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County)
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