Through the School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), the United States has actively trained Latin American military personnel in torture tactics.
Author: Ranhita Bora
Ranhita Bora is a third-year Political Science and Spanish double major at UCLA. She works at a consumer protection law firm in Los
Angeles, along with being involved on campus in cheerleading, the Judicial Board, and Kappa Alpha Pi, a pre-law fraternity. She hopes to go into international relations and work for the UN in the future.
New Zealand acted early and aggressively, and it paid off. However, one subset of the population was hit especially hard: the Indigenous Māori community.
The tendency of Eastern cultures to focus on relationships highlights the importance of community, hierarchy, and interpersonal relations, while the emphasis on logic and fixed rules in ancient Greece is fundamental to the individualist Western worldview.
Journal on World Affairs, UCLA 