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2. This goes back to Clinton, and earlier. It's not, however, for all of us US citizens to pay...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Jul 30, 2014, 05:40 PM

Jul 2014

...there are a select few who profited from these atrocities and who engineered it.

Efforts should be made to bring them to justice and let any reparations come from their coffers.

It does, however, fall on us to be humanitarian and not xenophobic, the Maya are a proud people, it's truly a crime what's been done to them in the name of progress.

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How the U.S.-Backed Genocide in Guatemala Drove the Child Refugee Crisis [View all] Judi Lynn Jul 2014 OP

Thank you, Judi Lynn, for being so faithful in merrily Jul 2014 #1

I really hope some of them are useful, merrily. No reason politics should keep us ignorant Judi Lynn Jul 2014 #3

Your posts are both useful and interesting. merrily Jul 2014 #4

This goes back to Clinton, and earlier. It's not, however, for all of us US citizens to pay... NYC_SKP Jul 2014 #2

In the case of Guatemala, US gov't interests and commerical interests were combined Judi Lynn Jul 2014 #5

Unfortunately, it is not always so easy to separate all citizens from the smaller sub-group of merrily Jul 2014 #6

And today, Ukraine is the new victim Demeter Jul 2014 #7

Last week it was because of the Honduran coup n/t Bacchus4.0 Jul 2014 #8

And the Salvadoran Civil War Al Carroll Jul 2014 #9

The children are mostly Guatemalan AND Honduran! Peace Patriot Jul 2014 #10