Podcast: "Preach What You Practice," a new WOLA report on military roles, police roles, and U.S. aid
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WOLA's new report will be released later this week and available here.
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U.S. law prohibits using soldiers as police, but U.S. aid programs encourage Latin American militaries to take on internal roles. At home, notes Preach What You Practice, a report the Washington Office on Latin America will launch later this week, "the United States has a clear separation between the uses of its military and the uses of its law enforcement agencies." In Latin America, though, our policies "often do just the opposite: encourage Latin American governments to use their militaries against their own people." WOLA's Regional Security Policy Program staff discuss this paradox and the new report's recommendations.
Preach What You Practice will be released this week and will be available on the WOLA and "Just the Facts" websites.
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