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Reflecting on America`s Connection to Guatemalan Atrocities

Rios Montt, the same man Reagan said "is totally dedicated to democracy... and has been getting a bum rap" is the one whom over 100 victims have testified in recent months about the atrocious acts of rape, violence, torture, and extreme human rights violations.

(GUATEMALA CITY) - My Guatemalan host brother and I are at a museum centered on the history of inequality and injustice in Guatemala, located in Guatemala City.

We are pictured here watching interviews with victims and relatives of victims who underwent the extreme oppression, genocide, and torture of the U.S-backed 36-year-long civil war.

America itself, as a Crime Against Humanity

America, originally intended to be a “shining city on a hill” has in its moral priggishness turned out, instead, to be a sinkhole in the valley of the shadow of death.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - I am so angry today against the United States and its moral crimes, that I fear I may go a bit overboard. So be it.

We all know what’s happened and is happening in Mexico because of America’s drug policy. And now the same fate is befalling Guatemala. Mexican cartels working with local gangs control around 40 percent of the country.

U.S. Apologizes for Abusive Guatemala Human Medical Experiments

As Walt Kelly's "Pogo" observed, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The U.S. government acknowledged that between 1946 and 1948, U.S. Public Health Service physicians deliberately infected at least 696 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea without their knowledge or consent to study the effect of VD.

U.S. officials formally apologized for the "abhorrent" and "clearly unethical" medical experiments.