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Robert Parry | Reagan's Hand in Guatemala's Genocide

Wed, 01/25/2012 - 20:13 — Dave Culver
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Foreign Affairs
Human Rights & Civil Liberties

  • If there is one consensus in the mainstream US news media, it seems to be that not a discouraging word can be spoken about Ronald Reagan. On those rare occasions when major US news outlets do make mention of the Guatemalan genocide of the 1980s, they circumspectly reframe the story to avoid mentioning Reagan's role.
  • The roots of Bain Capital in El Salvador’s civil war


Robert Parry, Consortium News

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Guatemala has begun a politically difficult process to make human rights violators of the 1980s accountable for their crimes, including genocide inflicted on Indian villages, but the United States still heaps praise on the killers’ chief American accomplice, Ronald Reagan.

Guatemala is taking steps to hold an ex-dictator accountable for genocide committed against Maya-Ixil Indians in the 1980s, even as the United States continues to honor the American president — Ronald Reagan — who helped make that genocide possible.
A Guatemalan judge ordered Efraín Ríos Montt to appear in court on Thursday (Jan 26) in what could be the start of a process for trying the former military dictator on genocide charges for authorizing scorched-earth campaigns against Maya-Ixil villages suspected of sympathizing with leftist guerrillas.

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