After criticism concerning human rights violations committed by a number of graduates in Latin America, the school was renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
In January, the Department of Defense reopened it under another name: the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly School of the Americas)
On January 17, 2001, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) opened its doors in Fort Benning, Georgia.
Human rights activists have used direct action in the ongoing campaign to close the School of the Americas, renamed in 2001 the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
It's the Western Hemisphere Institute of Security Cooperation (formerly the School of the Americas), a military training facility for Latin American soldiers and police officers.
The school was recently renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
In November 2010 Fr Vitale again crossed the line at Ft Benning to protest the U.S. Army's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
The school is now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
It soon reopened as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, the name it continues to operate under today, in the hope that its cold war associations have been expunged.