Rios Montt and the Guatemalan press [View all]

[Bacchus4.0]

I was curious at to this bogus claim made on another thread regarding press coverage of Rios Montt and his atrocities:

"And none of them make the Guatemalan press, except maybe with a brief, vague, passing mention buried on a back page. "

So I did an online search of the largest Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre (not to be confused with the Cuban government shitrag Prensa Latina). Also, the Siglo 21 another paper. I found the claim interesting because the Guatemalan press has been historically hard on their mostly corrupt governments. During the Jorge Serrano auto-coup he shut down the press. Siglo 21 responded by publishing an edition anyway that was completely devoid of any article or print whatsoever save the press banner.

I searched Prensa Latina first for Rios Montt and found 4 pages of links on Rios Montt and his atrocities in just the last two months. 4 pages of links just from Prensa Latina on Rios MOntt, I repeat. On Siglo 21 I found 10 pages of links to stories just from Siglo 21 on Rios Montt and it seems just this year.

I then searched for Jennifer Harbury, whose Guatemalan husband was tortured and killed by the military, and found 9 pages of links just on Siglo 21 website. I recall her story from way back in the 90s. Clearly someone is purposely making false claims, and others are all too eager to accept these false claims.

Not sure why this individual chose to take a swipe at the press, but its just a pattern of posting any b.s. Perhaps, reruns of Alo Presidente would be a more appropriate activity for our dimwitted chavista friends.




Prensa Libre on Rios Montt http://www.prensalibre.com/archivo/?text=rios montt&page=1


Siglo 21 on Rios Montt http://www.s21.com.gt/search/google/rios%20montt?query=rios%20montt&cx=017238256316942201728%3A1-7gdx7w70k&cof=FORID%3A11&sitesearch=


Jennifer Harbury http://www.s21.com.gt/search/google/jennifer%20harbury?query=jennifer%20harbury&cx=017238256316942201728%3A1-7gdx7w70k&cof=FORID%3A11&sitesearch=





http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/justicia/Retrocede-proceso-Rios-Montt_0_903509871.html
http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/justicia/Reinicia-genocidio-exdictador-Rios-Montt_0_889111310.html

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Con Gálvez el proceso continuó durante la primera instancia penal, incorporó a los militares Efraín Ríos Montt y José Mauricio Rodríguez
Ríos Montt y José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez son acusados de ser los responsables intelectuales de la muerte de mil 771 indígenas ixiles, a manos del Ejército, en 16 diferentes matanzas colectivas ocurridas entre marzo de 1982 a agosto de 1982, cuando el primero gobernó de facto el país, y el segundo fue jefe de la Dirección de Inteligencia Militar.