Lisa Sullivan is Latin America coordinator for School of the Americas Watch, a nonviolent grassroots organization that works with the people of Latin America to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas and to oppose its policies. She has lived in Venezuela since 1982, and for 21 years was a Maryknoll lay missioner, working as a community organizer in the western barrios of Barquisimeto.
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