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Article: Spanish group honors SOA Watch.(Nation)
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- January 14, 2005
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SOA Watch, the peace organization that has sought for 14 years to close down a notorious U.S. Army school for Latin American military officers, has been awarded the 21st International Alfonso Comin Foundation human rights award.
In a December ceremony in Barcelona, Spain, Maryknoll Fr. Roy Bourgeois accepted the award on behalf of SOA Watch, which he founded in 1990 after graduates of the School of the Americas were linked to the assassinations of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador. Barcelona Mayor Joan Clos and Comin's widow, Maria Luis, presented the award with the city council.
The private foundation cited SOA Watch for its efforts to change U.S. ...