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Judi Lynn
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There was a clear difference between the position taken by Carter and Clinton on Guatemala vs Reagan
Very quick example, using the example from this article: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/US_Guat.html [center] ![]() ![]() ![]() [font size=1]Jennifer Harbury and Carol DeVine, the widows of Efrain Velasquez and Michael DeVine respectively, testify in Congress about the CIA's involvement in the murders of their husbands.[/font] THE CIA IN GUATEMALA: THE LESSER KNOWN HOLOCAUST "We have no scorched earth policy. We have a scorched Communist policy." Guatemalan President RIOS MONTT "The military guys who do this are like serial killers. If Jeffrey Dahmer had been in Guatemala, he would be a general by now." - CLYDE SNOW, forensic anthropologist [/center] Compared to the struggles against state tyranny in other Central American countries, very little is heard of Guatemala in the Western media. This is because the level of repression is extremely high; Guatemala has suffered the worst record of human rights abuses in Latin America. During three decades, hundreds of thousands of people have been massacred during their struggle against a government that has been armed and trained by the U.S. ~snip~ Anyone attempting to organise a union or simply suspected of being in support of the resistance was a target. Armed men broke into their homes and dragged them away. The abducted were tortured, mutilated or burned; their bodies were found buried in mass graves or floating in plastic bags in lakes or rivers, or lying beside the road. Bodies were dropped into the Pacific from airplanes. In the Gualan area, it was said, no one fished any more because too many corpses were caught in the nets. In Guatemala City, right wing terrorists machine-gunned people and houses in daylight. Journalists, lawyers, students, teachers, trade unionists, members of opposition parties, anyone who helped or expressed sympathy for the rebel cause, anyone with a vaguely leftist political association or a moderate criticism of government policy and relatives of the victims were all targets for attack.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) contributed to a programme to greatly expand the size of Guatemala's national police force and to develop it into a professional body skilled at counteracting urban disorder. Additionally, the police force was completely supplied with radio patrol cars and a radio communications network and funds to build a national police academy and pay for salaries, uniforms, weapons and equipment. More: http://www.american-buddha.com/cia.guatemala.htm |
Posted by Judi Lynn | Sat Jan 28, 2012, 03:44 AM (0 replies)
Completely missing in school text books is the amazing choice given to the citizens
by Rios Montt in his bizarre "guns and beans" initiative. What a mighty man of God, you bet.
Important background on this ally of the US right-wing:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zeroes/Efrain_Rios_Montt.html [center]~ ~ ~ ~ ~[/center]
More: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/US_Guat.html |
Posted by Judi Lynn | Sat Jan 28, 2012, 03:12 AM (0 replies)
What a "thrill" it was to learn Illinois (R) Rep. Jerry Weller married Zury Rios-Montt,
renewing bonds between US right-wingers and the blood-thirsty, racist right of Guatemala.
Just as morally disoriented Ronald Reagan, fundie flim-flam artist preachers Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell embraced the genocidal, bogus fundie preacher/butchering dictator and his henchmen, so has Republican Congressman Weller embraced his right-wing daughter, Guatemalan Congresswoman Zury Rios-Montt. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zury_R%C3%ADos_Montt Jerry Weller's Wikipedia: In July 2004, Weller announced that he was engaged to three-term Guatemalan Congresswoman Zury Ríos Montt, daughter of former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt.[17] On November 20, 2004, the two married at her father's home in Antigua Guatemala, his second marriage and her fourth. (Zury Ríos has also used the combined parental surname Ríos Sosa, but in Guatemala she is nowadays best known by her father's name, Ríos Montt; her personal website uses the hybrid married form "Ríos-Montt de Weller". [7])http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Weller [center] ![]() ![]() Father of the blushing bride, genocidal dictator Efrain Rios-Montt ![]() ![]() ![]() Rios-Montt's legacy, survivors of a massacre carrying remains of their loved ones from mass grave for re-burial.[center] |
Posted by Judi Lynn | Sat Jan 28, 2012, 02:54 AM (0 replies)
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