Mining, Repression And The Rhetoric Of Democracy And The Rule Of Law In Guatemala

[Judi Lynn]

1. The Guatemalan oligarchs should all be in prison for what they've done to the people

who live there. So much suffering within the country, all completely avoidable if they had refused not to be bought by foreign powers to turn against their fellow human beings.

Their deep, hateful racism made it possible to look at the large Mayan majority as being so different from them they simply have never mattered.

From the article:

Most Guatemalans refer to 1944-54 as their only time of real democracy, when successive civilian governments came to power and actually started to bring about positive reforms as to how the country operated. This "democratic spring" was ended brutally in 1954 when the U.S. government orchestrated a military coup against the government of President Arbenz. The North American media played its role supporting this illegal intervention using the 'Cold War' propaganda of "fighting communism" to justify the unjustifiable. U.S. allies, notably Canada and western European nations, turned a blind eye to yet one more U.S. led intervention.

One day this WILL change. Hope it happens during our lifetimes. It has been hell there for good people since 1954.