{"id":922,"date":"2006-11-14T09:14:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=922"},"modified":"2006-11-14T09:19:48","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T17:19:48","slug":"bush-quietly-lifts-ban-on-aiding-latin-american-militaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/11\/14\/bush-quietly-lifts-ban-on-aiding-latin-american-militaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Quietly Lifts Ban on Aiding Latin American Militaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_11_14_pardew.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_11_14_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=40%  src=\"http:\/\/www.votb.org\/tanyasmall2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><em>GUEST: Christy Pardew, Communications Coordinator, School of the Americas Watch<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the latest of secret maneuvers, President Bush has quietly lifted a military training ban for 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The ban, originally passed in 1998 by Congress, required Latin American nations wanting U.S. military aid, to sign an agreement supporting political immunity for U.S. soldiers. The argument for lifting this ban through an October 2nd presidential memorandum to Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, was the cost of U.S. influence in the region. Rice stated that the impact of the ban has been &#8220;shooting ourselves in the foot&#8221; with the rise of quote &#8220;leftist victories&#8221;. Meanwhile, organizers with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153School of the Americas Watch,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are hosting their annual convergence on Fort Benning to protest the School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation. Simultaneous demonstrations will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Manta, Ecuador; Santiago, Chile; Bogota, Colombia; and Fort Huachuca. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Christy Pardew, Communications Coordinator, School of the Americas Watch In the latest of secret maneuvers, President Bush has quietly lifted a military training ban for 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The ban, originally passed in 1998 by Congress, required Latin American nations wanting U.S. military aid, to sign an agreement supporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}