Killer Candidate

Ex-general threatens Guatemalan election

By Victor Blue

The second peacetime elections in Guatemala since the 1996 Peace Accords could return one of the country’s most brutal dictators to power. Efrain Rios Montt—who seized power in 1982 and whose scorched-earth policy of the following 18 months resulted in more than 19,000 deaths—became an official [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    This smells ripe of US involvement at some point.  It would be interesting to investigate if the US had any involvement to this man’s rising to power as been the case with many, if not most of the despots who found their way to power in Central and South America.

    United States Posted by Ted Bohne on Oct 24, 2003 at 7:00 PM

    Ted- Sorry to say.But you ain’t getting any investigation out of this. Bush and ilk run from everything and anything. Heard about the latest CIA leak?! We now know that Tonkin resolution was a L-I-E! We now know the “intel” on iraq was a L-I-E. (oh goody george- nukes are where? bioligical where? killing people where? way to go cowboy shmboy).

    the us should back selfdefeating butt out of the rest of the nations- particularly here. if nobody has been to argentina, costa rica, brazil, etc.- you should go. amazing, amazing places. beautiful. beaches, mountains (argentina? the best!).
    Let’s do our bit to help keep this dictator in his shed. Guatemala will survive with everybody’s help.

    United States Posted by The English Professor on Oct 25, 2003 at 1:35 PM

    “We now know that Tonkin resolution was a L-I-E!”

    We now know?  Now?  Been out of touch for the last thirty years?

    United States Posted by Nus on Nov 3, 2003 at 1:21 PM

    ese tipejo no deve robar las elecciones, Rios Montt no es digno de nada, el deveria ser enjuiciado como un criminal.-

    United States Posted by sergio on Nov 5, 2003 at 10:56 PM

    Indeed, the guatemalan dictatorship which led to more than a hundred thousand killings and disappearances was incited by the CIA, as is well known, because the then democratically elected government was toying with plans to give land which belonged to an Amercian fruit company back to the indiginous population.

    Egypt Posted by koen on Nov 10, 2003 at 10:17 AM
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