The last link in my post above gives a short (very short) synopsis of some of the key players. The US has been involved in most of their rise to power.
(note: if you scroll to bottom of page you can see players from all around the globe. Wonder which one we should go after next in our war of "liberation" ? Certainly no lack of countries under oppressive regimes -------but, since we propped many of them into place, I find it as hypocritical as our "liberation" of Iraq)
The link to my second quoted paragraph above (which I just edited in) reviews a book written about Guatemala.
I found this while doing my research, really details the US involvement:
http://www.webdelsol.com/AGNI/asp98jl2.htm
Quote:
The relationship began early. Recently declassified C.I.A. documents confirm that the C.I.A. engineered the 1954 coup that toppled the Democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman-and led to decades of military led governments. The documents included instructions on how to assassinate ten people in a conference room.
The U.S. has trained more than sixteen hundred Guatemalan military personnel at the U.S. Army School of the Americas now in Ft. Benning, Georgia. In September 1996, the Pentagon released seven S.O.A. training manuals that were used in the 1980s to teach torture, extortion and murder. A Defense Intelligence Agency biographical sketch from 1967, when the S.O.A. was based in Ft. Gulick, Panama, stated that Guatemala's future defense minister, Hector Gramajo, studied counterinsurgency techniques. And in 1991 he gave the school's commencement address.
Public disclosure of intelligence concerning human rights abuses in Guatemala remains rare. After Guatemalan guerrilla leader Efrain Bamaca Vel Esquez disappeared and was tortured by the military in 1992, for three years U.S. officials told his wife, Harvard-educated lawyer Jennifer Harbury, that they had no information about him. But Harbury obtained a Defense Intelligence Agency document that said the U.S. Embassy officials in Guatemala were told of Bamaca's death in 1993. And in the spring of 1995, Congressman Robert Torricelli said that a Guatemalan officer, an S.O.A. graduate on the C.I.A. payroll, had been involved in Bamaca's execution. |
I've written many time about the School of the Americas, a search will bring you much info. This torture training school was previously located in Panama, but they got wise and kicked us out. Now on American soil, Ft Benning GA. Many of the Central American troops/leaders were trained there or by agents from there....................
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/40/120.html
The more I read, the more I understand the worlds' disdain for the US.
And, the more I agree with it,quite frankly. We will reap what we have sown.