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This essay provides a critical analysis of the influence of the School of the Americas (SOA), founded in 1946 in the Panama Canal Zone. The SOA has been a fundamental institution for training military personnel linked to coups d'état, dictatorships, and systematic violence, all aimed at securing U.S. hegemony and the implementation of the neoliberal model in Abya Yala. From a Marxist perspective, it is argued that imperialist violence is not an anomaly, but a necessary structural component for the expansion of capital and the reproduction of its relations of dominance. Thus, the SOA reveals itself as a central apparatus of U.S. imperialism, operating as a laboratory for indoctrination based on the National Security Doctrine. This imperial pedagogy defined as an "internal enemy" any social subject who questioned the capitalist order or the associated local elites. Finally, the essay contends that, despite its relocation and name change to WHINSEC in 2001, its doctrinal core remains intact. New narratives—such as the "war on terror"—function as facades that allow for the continued persecution of social movements. This persistence is evidenced in the patterns of repression observed in recent protests across the region, confirming the ongoing relevance of its objectives of economic and geopolitical control.
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