María Luisa Rosal will speak – based on her professional and academic work and the extensive research and experience of the School of the Americas Watch – on the deeds of the SOA/WHINSEC that bring her to Pensacola, and in particular, on the Army's plans to bolster the SOA/WHINSEC and to extend the same cruel and destructive training to Africa
Rosal’s professional and academic work has included the issues of torture, involuntary disappearances, historical memory, and human rights in Guatemala. She holds a degree in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master's in Human Rights and Democratization from the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Maria Luisa Rosal will be speaking in Pensacola Tuesday at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Highway 29, and Wednesday at the Pensacola Public Library downtown. She will have a Spanish language presentation Thursday at Open Books on North Guillemard Street. All three events begin at seven p-m and are free and open to the public.
The speaking engagements in Pensacola are sponsored by Veterans for Peace, Chapter 135, Northwest Florida, the Pensacola Coffee Party, Open Books and the Pensacola Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Committee. Other sponsorships are expected.
