In Colombia, 14 people die in political violence each day, and 1.5 million people have been displaced since 1985. Human rights advocates, union organizers, university students, & religious leaders are among the many people living under death threats or forced into exile. Often linked to these human rights crimes are Colombian military trained at the US Army School of the Assassins located at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

In El Salvador, 6 Jesuit priests were killed by Salvadoran Army soldiers in 1989. 19 of the murderers were trained by the SOA.

In Guatemala, activists, journalists, and politicians are among those being targeted for violence. In 1990 Myrna Mack, a prominent anthropologist was assasinated for her work documenting the execution or disappearance of more than 200,000 Guatemalan citizens during the country's civil war. A vast majority of these victims were indigenous Mayan people of Guatemala, killed in what can only be called an act of genocide.