Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin said that Costa Rica’s peaceful history is threatened by military training from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), which used to be called the U.S. Army School of the Americas.
Full story at Tico Times.
Code Pink: Women for Peace is a NGO that describes itself as a “grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities”.