to be destroyed if the people won't take the abuse and love it.
It wasn't that long ago Ronald Reagan's evil buddy, Efrain Rios-Montt was in full swing, attacking entire villages of Mayan citizens, slaughtering the people, burning their homes to the ground, and this on the heels of an overthrow of their elected leftist President in 1954, for which Efrain Rios-Montt was also present.
Guatemalan citizens have been living in pure hell.
A little look at US former President Ronald Reagan's favorite Guatemalan monster, Rios-Montt:
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The generals also unleashed a scorched earth attack on the nation’s Mayan population that, according to a UN commission, resulted in the annihilation of at nearly 600 villages. Within 18 months, more than 19,000 people had perished at the hands of Ríos Montt ‘s death squads. The killings continued even after Ríos Montt was eased from office in 1983. By 1990, more than 200,000 people had died in Guatemalan’s bloody civil war, with more than 90 percent of the dead killed by government forces. Of those, more than 83 percent were indigenous Mayans.
Perhaps as many as one million more Guatemalans, many of them Mayan peasants, were uprooted from their homes, many of them forced to live in "re-education" camps enclosed with barbed wire and armed guards. Many were later forced to work in the fields of Guatemalan land barons.
"Not even the lives of the elderly, pregnant women or innocent children were spared," declared the Guatemalan Council of Catholic Bishops in 1982 about the massacres under Ríos Montt. "We have never in our history seen such serious extremes."
Ríos Montt shrugged off such talk as leftwing propaganda. "We don’t have a policy of scorched earth," he sneered. "We have a policy of scorched Communists."
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/07/16/the-return-of-general-rios-montt/
He publically offered them a choice between "beans or bullets." I've never really heard if he actually gave out beans but he was more than delighted to shoot the hell out of the poor people of Guatemala. Typical a-hole right-winger. Unfortunately, he is still living.
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