Sources for the list of Notorious School of the Americas Graduates

ACFPC:

Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus Memorandum, April 25. 1990

AI:CPV:

Amnesty International Report: Colombia: Political Violence, Myth and Reality, 1994

AIN:

Andean Information Network Report: Human Rights Violations Stemming from the War On Drugs in Bolivia, October 1993.

AITU:

Amnesty International report, "Latin America: Human Rights Violations Against Trade Unionists, March 1991

AJC:

The Atlanta Journal/Constitution

AP:

Associated Press

*APNC:

Autodefensas, Paramilitares y Narcotrafico en Colombia, by Carlos Medina Gallego

*AW:ADA:

Americas Watch Report, Abdicating Democratic Authority: Human Rights in Peru, October 1984

AW:AMSF:

Americas Watch Report, The Army Massacre at San Francisco, 1989

AW:BTR:

Americas Watch Report, Bolivia, The Trial of Responsibilities: The Garcia Meza Tejada Trial, September 10, 1993

AW:CDG:

Americas Watch Report, Clandestine Detention in Guatemala, March 1993

AW:CIT:

Americas Watch Report, Chile in Transition, 1989

*AW:CTS

Americas Watch Report, Closing the Space, Human Rights in Guatemala, 1987-1988

AW:DIG:

Americas Watch Report, Disappeared in Guatemala: The Case -of Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, March 1994

*AW:DS:

Americas Watch Report, Desperate Straits: Human Rights in Peru After a Decade of Democracy and Insurgency, Aug. 1990

AW:HIG:

Americas Watch Report, Human Rights in Guatemala During President De León Carpio's First Year, June 1994

AW:HRH

Americas Watch Report, Human Rights in Honduras: Central America's Sideshow, May 1987

AW:HRP:

Americas Watch Report, Human Rights in Peru: One Year After Fujimori's Coup, April 1993

*AW:HRSP:

Americas Watch Report, The Human Rights Situation in Peru, 1993

*AW:HWW:

Americas Watch Report, Honduras: Without the Will, 1989

*AW:IDHC:

Americas Watch Report, Informe sobre derechos humanos en Colombia, 1989

*AW:LAOD:

Americas Watch Report, Paraguay: Latin America's Oldest Dictatorship Under Pressure

AW:LC:

Americas Watch Report, Anatomy of a Cover- Up: The Disappearances at La Cantuta, September 1993

*AW:MOD

Americas Watch Report, Messengers of Death, Human Rigths in Guatemala, 1988-1990

*AW:MTC:

Americas Watch Report, The More Things Change... Human Rights in Haiti, 1987.

*AW:PAFY:

Americas Watch Report, Human Rights in Peru After President Garcia's First Year, Sept. 1986

AW:PUF:

Americas Watch Report, Peru Under Fire: Human Rights since the Return to Democracy, 1992

AW:SW:

Americas Watch Report, State of War Political Violence and Counterinsurgency in Colombia, 1993

AW:TFS:

Americas Watch report, The Facts Speak for Themselves, 1994

AWTM:

Americas Watch Report, Honduras: Torture and Murder by Government Forces Persist Despite End of Hostilities, June 1991

AW:UB:

Americas Watch Report, Unfinished Business: Human Rights in Chile at the Start of the Frei Presidency, May 1994

AW:UT:

Americas Watch Report, Untold Terror Violence Against Women in Peru's Armed Conflict, December 1992

*BI2/20:

Boletín Informativo de la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos de Honduras, 2/20/97

*BI9/3:

Boletín Informativo de la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos de Hounduras 9/3/97

BSC:

Bolivian Supreme Court document: Sentencia Pronunciada en los Juicios de Responsabilidad Seguidos por el Ministerio Publico y Coadyuvantes Contra Luis Garcia Meza y sus Colaboradores, April 21, 1993

*CAP:

Central America Update

*CAQ:

Covert Action Quarterly

*CAR:

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights: Civilians at Risk: Military and Police Abuses in the Mexican Countryside, August 1993

*CCS:

Caso Carmelo Soria: Declaración Pública de SERPAJ (Equipo Nizkor)

*CDH:

Colombia: Derechos humanos y derechos humanitario, Comisión colombiana de juristas, 1997

*CDHG:

Comisión de Derechos Humanos de Guatemala

CISPES:

Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador

CITL:

Colombia, Inside the Labyrinth, by Jenny Pearce, 1990, Monthly Review Press, New York

*CKN:

Colombia's Killer Networks, Human Rights Watch, 1996

*CRC

Chiapas: La rebelión de las cañadas, by Carlos Tello Díaz, 1995, Acento Editorial, Madrid

DOSRS:

Department of State Report on the Situation in El Salvador, April 1, 1988.

*EH:

El Heraldo (Honduran Newspaper)

*ET:

El Tiempo (Honduran Newspaper)

ETEC:

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights report, El Terrorismo de Estado en Colombia, 1992

FTT:

U.S. Committee for Refugees report, Feeding the Tiger, Colombia's Internally Displaced People, 1993

HAH:

"Hector at Harvard," by Dennis Bernstein and Larry Everest, Z Magazine, July/August 1991

HRWWR94:

Human Rights Watch World Report 1994

HRWWR95:

Human Rights Watch World Report 1995

*IDHP:

Informe de Derechos Humanos en Paraguay

*IMCHR:

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

*JPE

Juicio a Pinochet en España (Equipo Nizkor)

LL:

La Lagartija/Info SOA

LP:

Latinamerica Press

MH:

The Miami Herald

MIR:

Commission of Non-Governmental Organizations Report, Massacre in Riofrio, October 5, 1993

NCR:

National Catholic Reporter

*NSAN:

National Security Archives Nicaragua Collection

NSN:

Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater Now York Weekly News Update on tile Americas.

*OMCT:

OMCT News, December 1991

*PCDI

Primera Confesion desde el Interior de la DINA (Revista APS; Santiago de Chile)

*PPC

Presos Politicos de Chile

*TNM:

Tortura Nunca Mais (Rio de Janeiro)

*TORT:

Torture, World Organization against Torture, June 1991

*NYN:

Noche y niebla: Panorama de derechos humanos y violencia politica en Colombia (Banco de Datos de Violencia Politica)

NYT:

The New York Times

OMIP:

Our Man in Panama, by John Dinges, 1990

*PMRC:

Political Murder and Reform in Colombia, Americas Watch, 1992

POJ:

The Palace of Justice: A Colombian Tragedy, by Ana Carrigan, 1993

RAI:

Red Andina de Información

*SDH

Situacion de derechos humanos en Chile durante el primer semestre del 1996, Arzobispado de Santiago

*UIT:

Uruguay in Transition, by Ed Kaufman, 1979

*UNM:

Uruguay Nunca Más: Human Rights Violations in Uruguay 1972-1985, Temple University, 1992.

UNTCRES:

United Nations Truth Commission Report on El Salvador, March 1993

USACFPC:

U.S. Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus (House of Representatives) memo, April 25, 1990

*VDHL:

Violaciones a los derechos humanos civiles bajo la ley 1008, Red Andina de Informacion, 1996

*VG:

The Vanished Gallery

WOLA:

Washington Office on Latin America

WOLA:HRH:

Human Rights in Honduras, 1984, published by Washington Office on Latin America and CODEH

WP:

The Washington Post

*WRH:

Washington Report on the Hemisphere: Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Vol. 8, No. 18

The research to compile the lists of notorious SOA graduates was done by Vicky Imerman and Heather Dean

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