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2007-05-17 Caribbean-Latin America

Costa Rica to stop sending police to US army school

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-05-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Costa Rican President Oscar Arias vowed on Wednesday to stop sending police to train at a U.S. facility criticized for a history of producing soldiers who went on to violate human rights.

So was it the few months of training in the US or the lifetime in the Central/South American culture that led them to violate human rights?

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-05-17 18:28|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-05-17 18:28|| Front Page Top

#2 That makes no sense. A lot of Latin American dictators were educated in the US. And they have generally turned out to be corrupt to a man. While their US classmates kept their noses clean.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-05-17 21:10|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-05-17 21:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm gonna go out on a limb here, still gonna have crooked cops in central america. Cause you don't pay them anything, for one thing, cause your society tolerates/expects it for another.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-05-17 23:36|| 2007-05-17 23:36|| Front Page Top

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