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Guatemala=C2=92s R=C3=ADos Montt Genocide Conviction: Omen for US President=
s and Their Hired Assassins
By Jay Janson
Global Research, May 18, 2013
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Presiding Judge, =C2=93he knew about everything that was going on and he di=
d not stop it, despite having the power to stop it from being carried out.=
=C2=94 US President Ronald Reagan also had the power, greater power, to sto=
p the massacres being perpetrated by dictator General and President R=C3=AD=
os Montt. Instead visited him in Guatemala City and praised Rios Montt as =
=C2=93a man of great personal integrity and commitment. Who was more guilty=
?
Jos=C3=A9 Efra=C3=ADn R=C3=ADos Montt began his political and military care=
er as a young officer taking part in the bloody successful CIA-organized co=
up against the first democratically elected president in Guatemalan history=
that was ordered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954. Two years earl=
ier he had attended what peace activists call, the =C2=91US School for Assa=
ssins,=C2=92 namely, the long infamous School of the Americas. He ended hi=
s career a few days ago, convicted of genocide by the Guatemalan court he o=
nce controlled as president and dictator.
Associate Press reported,
=C2=91The three-judge panel essentially concluded that the massacres follow=
ed the same pattern, showing they had been planned, something that would no=
t be possible without the approval of the military command, which Rios Mont=
t headed. In delivering the verdict, Presiding Judge Yassmin Barrios said, =
=C2=93he knew about everything that was going on and he did not stop it, de=
spite having the power to stop it from being carried out.=C2=94 =C2=91
US President Ronald Reagan also had the power, greater power, to stop the m=
assacres being perpetrated by dictator General and President R=C3=ADos Mont=
t. Reagan must have been aware of them, known enough about them, and could =
have stopped those year-and-half-long massacres with far less effort than P=
resident Eisenhower had made in ordering the bloody and merciless overthrow=
ing of a popularly elected president, a democratic president, who in making=
land reform, had gotten in the way of the massive United Fruit Company tha=
t owned more than half of Guatemala.[1] In the case of the President of Gua=
temala and in President Reagan=C2=92s case, there was no room for sentiment=
. It was just business.
Prosecutors argued that R=C3=ADos Montt oversaw the massacres of Mayan Indi=
ans when he ruled Guatemala from March 1982 to August 1983. R=C3=ADos Montt=
held his great power as dictator of Guatemala for the financial and politi=
cal and military backing he was receiving from US President Ronald Reagan=
=C2=92s administration, and the administrations of US presidents before him=
, all of whom represented the interests of the financial consensus that rea=
lly rules in America.
Midway through the eighteen months of horrific massacres, December of 1982,=
President Ronald Reagan visited President-General R=C3=ADos Montt in Guate=
mala City and in a press release, praised the dictator,
=C2=93President R=C3=ADos Montt is a man of great personal integrity and co=
mmitment... I know he wants to improve the quality of life for all Guatemal=
ans and to promote social justice.=C2=94
These were the first years of President Ronald Reagan=C2=92s administration=
during which CIA was organizing, funding and overseeing the sickening terr=
orist attacks on rural areas of nearby Nicaragua from across the border of =
US ally Honduras, planning sabotage of industries and mining Nicaragua=C2=
=92s ports (which brought a US conviction by the International Court of Jus=
tice when Nicaragua sued in 1984). Reagan had let it be known he didn=C2=92=
t approve of the popular revolution that had overthrown a brutal thieving d=
ictator whose father had been installed by the US Marines as they were endi=
ng their twenty-one year old occupation of Nicaragua ordered by President W=
oodrow Wilson.[2] In El Salvador, despite evidence that by 1984, 65,000 civ=
ilians had been murdered by the National Guard and right-wing paramilitary =
forces, President Reagan=C2=92s national Bipartisan Commission on Central A=
merica justified massive military support.
As yet, there has never been a trial in the United States of US officials a=
nd their financial backers for bribery, for CIA crimes like assassinations,=
promoting massacres, arranging destabilizing violence, for armed intervent=
ion or the treat of armed intervention in a foreign nation in peace time. I=
nvestigations, yes, but to this writers knowledge never a prosecution. Afte=
r a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigated the CIA in the 197=
4, a bill was passed forbidding (future) assassinations of government offic=
ials. (American school books cite Admiral Perry=C2=92s 1854 ultimatum to th=
e Japanese government to sign a treaty of commerce or see Yokohama reduces =
to ashes by his flotilla=C2=92s cannons, as Perry=C2=92s achievement =C2=91=
The Opening up of Japan=C2=92 .)
Once the US is no longer omnipotent, and Americans no longer enjoy immunity=
as an exceptional race, their crimes against humanity will be prosecuted a=
s was the genocide committed by R=C3=ADos Montt, a loutish butcher employed=
by who and what everyone knows. Everyone! If one of Al Capone=C2=92s trigg=
ermen was on trial for murder, who was more importantly guilty, the trigger=
man, who was only one of the Mafia Don=C2=92s many triggermen convicted, or=
Mafia don Al Capone himself?
Eventually, if not sooner, given the fact that there is no time limitation =
on prosecution of genocide, and the coming inevitable restitution of logic =
and law in public affairs, one can expect prosecution of Americans, and not=
just Americans in high office serving that =C2=93financial element in the =
circles of power that has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jac=
kson=C2=94 as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt quipped to his friend Col=
onel House in 1932. (One might also like to recall that at the time FDR, in=
confidence, noted his secondary importance to that =C2=93financial element=
,=C2=94 a tightly inclusive group of his of his friends and acquaintances a=
nd captains of industry and banking were, as a block, investing in the chea=
p labor of a financially prostate Nazi Germany and building its Wehrmacht u=
p to number one military force in the world in full knowledge of Hitler=C2=
=92s plan for the Soviet Union and European Jews.)
If one confines oneself to researching the well published documentation of =
crimes against humanity during the administrations of the presidents that f=
ollowed Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the last American president, who, as an =
aristocrat, had some influence among his wealthy peers, it becomes very cle=
ar why eminent historian Prof. Noam Chomsky of M.I.T. can say over and over=
again, without provoking much negative outcry, =C2=93If the Nuremberg laws=
were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hange=
d.=C2=94 Prof. Chomsky followed this statement with listing the crimes agai=
nst humanity of each of these presidents he had condemned to the gallows, a=
nd has since occasionally updated the list to include subsequent new US pre=
sidents. A hard rain is going to fall in America one day.
But the conviction of R=C3=ADos Montt portends more immediate future prosec=
ution of similar criminally traitorous servants of the last of the white wo=
rld colonial powers that have overseen massacres and slower forms of death =
throughout the Americas and especially in Central America and Mexico. And t=
hey are innumerable, so great is the reach of the corporatist government of=
the US superpower run by automaton legal thieves incapable of factoring de=
ath and misery, even deaths of children, into their mindless calculator-mac=
hine-like adherence to capital accumulation by the commodification of plane=
t and life on Earth. (Two popular American axioms come to mind: =C2=91Busin=
ess is business=C2=92 and =C2=91good guys don=C2=92t win ball games.=C2=92)
Those known for direct and immediate forms of genocide in the name of maint=
aining the maximum profitability of US and European predatory investments, =
are mentioned in encyclopedias and honest history books,
e.g., Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, General Humberto Branco of Brazil, Raoul C=
edras, Duvalier, Francois, Duvalier, Jean Claude of Haiti, Vinicio Cerezo a=
nd R=C3=ADos Montt of Guatemala, Roberto Suazo Cordova of Honduras, Alfredo=
Christiani of El Salvador, General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez of El Sa=
lvador, General Manuel Noriega of Panama, General Augusto Pinochet of Chile=
, Anastasio Somoza Sr. and Anastasio Somoza Jr. of Nicaragua, General Alfre=
do Stroessner of Paraguay, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of the Dominican Republ=
ic, General Jorge Rafael Videla of Argentina, just to mention those who mad=
e themselves notorious by being responsible for mass murder.
The list of thugs inflated in importance to infamous lethal monsters create=
d by the United States and allied colonial powers in Africa and Asia is mor=
e than twice as long as the one for Latin America. For every one of these h=
ousehold names of horror from immediate genocide through the use of militar=
y or paramilitary, there are dozens of local presidents in the nations that=
make up the non-white majority mankind, that have arisen from the comprado=
r class or military. They have represented their own people only nominally,=
while enforcing the infinitely broader in victims slow genocide of starvat=
ion and years of life lost from early death through malnutrition, treatable=
deceases, infant mortality and the mortality within all age groups, that r=
esults from populations having lost control natural resources needed to sus=
tain life. The lands, natural resources and human resources of this majorit=
y of Mankind have for centuries belonged to the plundering speculating inv=
estors of the First World, by internationally recognized =C2=91colonial law=
=C2=92 enforced by firepower.
Because the convictions of Presidents and Generals R=C3=ADos Montt, Pinoche=
t, and Videla impact Latin Americans more, we can focus on how these convic=
tions will spread consciousness of the slow genocide caused by the parasiti=
cal economic hegemony of the US over the nearly six hundred million human b=
eings living south of the US-Mexican border. Mexico and Haiti, perhaps for =
proximity to the Yankee trader in lives of human beings, have suffered far =
and away the most from a merciless economic subjugation of their population=
s by the world=C2=92s single superpower.
The most recent tragic and enormous loss of life in Haiti, a slow genocide,=
was recently officiously apologized for by ex-Presidetn Bill Clinton claim=
ing he meant well in turning Haiti over to agro-exploitation by the US busi=
ness world. As U.N. special envoy to Haiti =C2=96 he publicly apologized f=
or championing policies that destroyed Haiti=C2=92s rice production. Clint=
on in the mid-1990s had =C2=91encouraged=C2=92 (read =C2=91forced=C2=92) th=
e impoverished country to dramatically cut tariffs on imported U.S. rice. =
=C2=93It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has =
not worked. It was a mistake,=C2=94 Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relatio=
ns Committee on March 10. =C2=93I had to live everyday with the consequence=
s of the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those peo=
ple because of what I did; nobody else.=C2=94
Mexicans suffered the third massive crime of the United States in history: =
invasion and appropriation of half of its country at the point of guns and =
cannons. And since then Mexicans have witnessed the remaining half of thei=
r country occupied and exploited by the American world of business, with th=
e cooperation of Mexico=C2=92s wealthy and managed elections. (The first be=
ing the enslavement and murder of Africans, the second, the murderous subju=
gation and theft of the lands of the Native nations of America.)
Quoting from a study made by a distinguished Mexican writer and journalist,=
Gustavo Esteva:
=C2=93For some time now the social fabric and soul of Mexico has been torn =
away. One third of Mexicans are actually living outside of the country =C2=
=96one of the greatest migrations in history. Since the signing of the NAFT=
A agreement, 20 million Mexican citizens have emigrated, the majority of th=
em, to the United States and Canada, but some to countries as distant as Ja=
pan. Most of them are trying to escape from unbearable conditions in their =
place of origin or to support their families and communities from abroad. (=
The amount of remittances to Mexico, 22 billion dollars per year, is the se=
cond most important source of foreign income for Mexico, after oil).
Mexico no longer operates under a state of law. The violation of human righ=
ts, especially rights of some fifty ethnic groups, is a constant. There is =
also continual persecution of human rights activists, environmentalists, jo=
urnalists, and particularly, those struggling for social change. There is a=
regression of democracy, a structural =C2=93deviation of power,=C2=94 and =
the co-optation of the law by distinct corporatist factions. The Inter-Amer=
ican Court of Human Rights defined this as =C2=93the use of the powers of t=
he State to persecute and hinder the civil rights of the people.=C2=94 ... =
According to Amnesty International, the torture practiced by Mexican securi=
ty forces is a =C2=93generalized and systematic=C2=94 practice that in rece=
nt years has =C2=93reached scandalous levels.=C2=94 Impunity for these sadi=
stic acts of violence, or human rights violations is practically absolute.
More than 60 million Mexicans (of 115 million total) are living below the p=
overty line. 50 million live with food insecurity, 12 million can=C2=92t af=
ford basic or essential foods, 28 million are suffering from hunger, and 3 =
million face famine. [statistics from documentation gathered by the People'=
s Permanent Tribunal]
Policies that interfere the internal production of corn deteriorate the eco=
nomy directly in the indigenous communities, and can be seen as one of the =
main factors determining migration. The attack on ancestral peasant farming=
systems, introduction of genetically altered variants and privatization of=
commons so crucial to native seeds devastates rural life and weakens commu=
nities. For the invasion of peasant and indigenous territory for mega proj=
ects, mining operations, privatization of water, monoculture plantations, d=
eforestation, and the expropriation of territory via programs for the merca=
ntilization of nature, agro-ecological balance is lost;
The government through dispossession is trying to =C2=93clear=C2=94 people =
off their communal lands, already given in 50-years concessions to private =
corporations. These lands occupy more than 30% of Mexico. The owners of the=
lands, mainly indigenous people are resisting. The Zapatistas poetically e=
mbody this resistance.
The pace of environmental destruction is unprecedented. Corrupt deregulatio=
n initiatives and massive land concessions handed over to private interests=
have greatly accelerated the environmental devastation, which in some case=
s, has resulted in irreversible damage. The air, water, soil/sub-soil, fore=
sts, beaches, rivers, lakes, and oceans, all have been subject to rape and =
degradation through the commodification of nature by corporations.
In short, since the 1990=C2=92s, Mexico has adopted, in a systemic and inst=
itutionalized way, policies and strategies that have produced a progressive=
decline in the living conditions of the Mexican people and in their possib=
ility to access legal protection when their rights are violated. The govern=
ment alienates its citizens and marginalizes the rights of the people in th=
e name of macro-economic stability and in order to serve corporate or priva=
te interests in larger part those of American speculative investment bankin=
g.=C2=94
Convictions like that of R=C3=ADos Montt will help unmask the Washington-Wa=
ll Street domination of elections and hold over unscrupulous politicians no=
t only to the degree of mass homicide, but a slower and greater genocide in=
Mexico and the many nations to its South.
Good people in general and activists in particular throughout the hemispher=
e recognize the economic occupation and terrorism by Uncle Sam and are call=
ing for its prosecution as a crime against humanity. Cuba fought for, and g=
ot its freedom from economic occupation and slow genocide. Today Cubans enj=
oy a longevity even a bit higher than that in the US and a lower infant mor=
tality rate than in US.
Americans of good conscience must condemn their nations economic occupation=
and economic terror in neighboring Mexico and elsewhere.
Forty-seven years ago Martin Luther King Jr. cried out,
=C2=93Look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West inves=
ting huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take th=
e profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the country. Thi=
s is a role our nation has taken, ... refusing to give up the privileges an=
d the pleasures that comes from the immense profits of overseas investments=
. This is not just.=C2=94 ... The greatest purveyor of violence in the worl=
d today is my own government.=C2=94
King said =C2=93purveyor=C2=94 not cause, for he held America, Americans, i=
n anguish including himself, responsible, because the American people are c=
apable of making their economic and military criminal aggression no longer =
acceptable and inoperable through non-participation, non-support, non-acqui=
escence and conscientious objection.
Jay Janson, coordinator of the King Condemned US Wars International Awarene=
ss Campaign and web historian for the entirely educational Prosecute US Cr=
imes Against Humanity Now Campaign, which features the pertinent laws, exho=
rtations by Einstein, King and others, and a country by country history of =
US crimes and asks nothing at all from its viewers. http://prosecuteuscrime=
sagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com/
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=09=09=09<div class=3D"article-content"><p><em>Presiding Judge, “he k=
new about everything that was going on and he did not stop it, despite havi=
ng the power to stop it from being carried out.” US President Ronald =
Reagan also had the power, greater power, to stop the massacres being perpe=
trated by dictator General and President R=C3=ADos Montt. Instead visited =
him in Guatemala City and praised Rios Montt as =C2=93a man of great person=
al integrity and commitment. Who was more guilty?</em></p>
<p>Jos=C3=A9 Efra=C3=ADn R=C3=ADos Montt began his political and military c=
areer as a young officer taking part in the bloody successful CIA-organized=
coup against the first democratically elected president in Guatemalan hist=
ory that was ordered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954. Two years e=
arlier he had attended what peace activists call, the ‘US School for =
Assassins,’ namely, the long infamous School of the Americas. He end=
ed his career a few days ago, convicted of genocide by the Guatemalan court=
he once controlled as president and dictator.</p>
<p>Associate Press reported,</p>
<blockquote><p>‘The three-judge panel essentially concluded that the =
massacres followed the same pattern, showing they had been planned, somethi=
ng that would not be possible without the approval of the military command,=
which Rios Montt headed. In delivering the verdict, Presiding Judge Yassmi=
n Barrios said, “he knew about everything that was going on and he di=
d not stop it, despite having the power to stop it from being carried out.&=
#8221; ‘</p></blockquote>
<p>US President Ronald Reagan also had the power, greater power, to stop th=
e massacres being perpetrated by dictator General and President R=C3=ADos M=
ontt. Reagan must have been aware of them, known enough about them, and cou=
ld have stopped those year-and-half-long massacres with far less effort tha=
n President Eisenhower had made in ordering the bloody and merciless overth=
rowing of a popularly elected president, a democratic president, who in mak=
ing land reform, had gotten in the way of the massive United Fruit Company =
that owned more than half of Guatemala.[1] In the case of the President of =
Guatemala and in President Reagan’s case, there was no room for senti=
ment. It was just business.</p>
<p>Prosecutors argued that R=C3=ADos Montt oversaw the massacres of Mayan I=
ndians when he ruled Guatemala from March 1982 to August 1983. R=C3=ADos Mo=
ntt held his great power as dictator of Guatemala for the financial and pol=
itical and military backing he was receiving from US President Ronald Reaga=
n’s administration, and the administrations of US presidents before h=
im, all of whom represented the interests of the financial consensus that r=
eally rules in America.</p>
<p>Midway through the eighteen months of horrific massacres, December of 19=
82, President Ronald Reagan visited President-General R=C3=ADos Montt in Gu=
atemala City and in a press release, praised the dictator,</p>
<p style=3D"padding-left: 30px;"><em>“President R=C3=ADos Montt is a =
man of great personal integrity and commitment….I know he wants to im=
prove the quality of life for all Guatemalans and to promote social justice=
.”</em></p>
<p>These were the first years of President Ronald Reagan’s administra=
tion during which CIA was organizing, funding and overseeing the sickening =
terrorist attacks on rural areas of nearby Nicaragua from across the border=
of US ally Honduras, planning sabotage of industries and mining Nicaragua&=
#8217;s ports (which brought a US conviction by the International Court of =
Justice when Nicaragua sued in 1984). Reagan had let it be known he didn=
217;t approve of the popular revolution that had overthrown a brutal thievi=
ng dictator whose father had been installed by the US Marines as they were =
ending their twenty-one year old occupation of Nicaragua ordered by Preside=
nt Woodrow Wilson.[2] In El Salvador, despite evidence that by 1984, 65,000=
civilians had been murdered by the National Guard and right-wing paramilit=
ary forces, President Reagan’s national Bipartisan Commission on Cent=
ral America justified massive military support.</p>
<p>As yet, there has never been a trial in the United States of US official=
s and their financial backers for bribery, for CIA crimes like assassinatio=
ns, promoting massacres, arranging destabilizing violence, for armed interv=
ention or the treat of armed intervention in a foreign nation in peace time=
. Investigations, yes, but to this writers knowledge never a prosecution. A=
fter a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigated the CIA in the =
1974, a bill was passed forbidding (future) assassinations of government of=
ficials. (American school books cite Admiral Perry’s 1854 ultimatum t=
o the Japanese government to sign a treaty of commerce or see Yokohama redu=
ces to ashes by his flotilla’s cannons, as Perry’s achievement =
‘The Opening up of Japan’ .)</p>
<p>Once the US is no longer omnipotent, and Americans no longer enjoy immun=
ity as an exceptional race, their crimes against humanity will be prosecute=
d as was the genocide committed by R=C3=ADos Montt, a loutish butcher emplo=
yed by who and what everyone knows. Everyone! If one of Al Capone’s t=
riggermen was on trial for murder, who was more importantly guilty, the tri=
ggerman, who was only one of the Mafia Don’s many triggermen convicte=
d, or Mafia don Al Capone himself?</p>
<p>Eventually, if not sooner, given the fact that there is no time limitati=
on on prosecution of genocide, and the coming inevitable restitution of log=
ic and law in public affairs, one can expect prosecution of Americans, and =
not just Americans in high office serving that “financial element in =
the circles of power that has owned the government since the days of Andrew=
Jackson” as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt quipped to his frien=
d Colonel House in 1932. (One might also like to recall that at the time FD=
R, in confidence, noted his secondary importance to that “financial e=
lement,” a tightly inclusive group of his of his friends and acquaint=
ances and captains of industry and banking were, as a block, investing in t=
he cheap labor of a financially prostate Nazi Germany and building its Wehr=
macht up to number one military force in the world in full knowledge of Hit=
ler’s plan for the Soviet Union and European Jews.)</p>
<p>If one confines oneself to researching the well published documentation =
of crimes against humanity during the administrations of the presidents tha=
t followed Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the last American president, who, as =
an aristocrat, had some influence among his wealthy peers, it becomes very =
clear why eminent historian Prof. Noam Chomsky of M.I.T. can say over and o=
ver again, without provoking much negative outcry, “If the Nuremberg =
laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been h=
anged.” Prof. Chomsky followed this statement with listing the crimes=
against humanity of each of these presidents he had condemned to the gallo=
ws, and has since occasionally updated the list to include subsequent new U=
S presidents. A hard rain is going to fall in America one day.</p>
<p>But the conviction of R=C3=ADos Montt portends more immediate future pro=
secution of similar criminally traitorous servants of the last of the white=
world colonial powers that have overseen massacres and slower forms of dea=
th throughout the Americas and especially in Central America and Mexico. An=
d they are innumerable, so great is the reach of the corporatist government=
of the US superpower run by automaton legal thieves incapable of factoring=
death and misery, even deaths of children, into their mindless calculator-=
machine-like adherence to capital accumulation by the commodification of pl=
anet and life on Earth. (Two popular American axioms come to mind: ‘B=
usiness is business’ and ‘good guys don’t win ball games.=
’)</p>
<p>Those known for direct and immediate forms of genocide in the name of ma=
intaining the maximum profitability of US and European predatory investment=
s, are mentioned in encyclopedias and honest history books,</p>
<p style=3D"padding-left: 30px;"><em>e.g., Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, Gener=
al Humberto Branco of Brazil, Raoul Cedras, Duvalier, Francois, Duvalier, J=
ean Claude of Haiti, Vinicio Cerezo and R=C3=ADos Montt of Guatemala, Rober=
to Suazo Cordova of Honduras, Alfredo Christiani of El Salvador, General Ma=
ximiliano Hernandez Martinez of El Salvador, General Manuel Noriega of Pana=
ma, General Augusto Pinochet of Chile, Anastasio Somoza Sr. and Anastasio S=
omoza Jr. of Nicaragua, General Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay, Rafael Leon=
idas Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, General Jorge Rafael Videla of Arg=
entina, just to mention those who made themselves notorious by being respon=
sible for mass murder.</em></p>
<p>The list of thugs inflated in importance to infamous lethal monsters cre=
ated by the United States and allied colonial powers in Africa and Asia is =
more than twice as long as the one for Latin America. For every one of thes=
e household names of horror from immediate genocide through the use of mili=
tary or paramilitary, there are dozens of local presidents in the nations t=
hat make up the non-white majority mankind, that have arisen from the compr=
ador class or military. They have represented their own people only nominal=
ly, while enforcing the infinitely broader in victims slow genocide of star=
vation and years of life lost from early death through malnutrition, treata=
ble deceases, infant mortality and the mortality within all age groups, tha=
t results from populations having lost control natural resources needed to =
sustain life. The lands, natural resources and human resources of this majo=
rity of Mankind have for centuries belonged to the plundering speculating =
investors of the First World, by internationally recognized ‘colonial=
law’ enforced by firepower.</p>
<p>Because the convictions of Presidents and Generals R=C3=ADos Montt, Pino=
chet, and Videla impact Latin Americans more, we can focus on how these con=
victions will spread consciousness of the slow genocide caused by the paras=
itical economic hegemony of the US over the nearly six hundred million huma=
n beings living south of the US-Mexican border. Mexico and Haiti, perhaps f=
or proximity to the Yankee trader in lives of human beings, have suffered f=
ar and away the most from a merciless economic subjugation of their populat=
ions by the world’s single superpower.</p>
<p>The most recent tragic and enormous loss of life in Haiti, a slow genoci=
de, was recently officiously apologized for by ex-Presidetn Bill Clinton cl=
aiming he meant well in turning Haiti over to agro-exploitation by the US b=
usiness world. As U.N. special envoy to Haiti – he publicly apologiz=
ed for championing policies that destroyed Haiti’s rice production. =
Clinton in the mid-1990s had ‘encouraged’ (read ‘forced&#=
8217;) the impoverished country to dramatically cut tariffs on imported U.S=
. rice. “It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, bu=
t it has not worked. It was a mistake,” Clinton told the Senate Forei=
gn Relations Committee on March 10. “I had to live everyday with the =
consequences of the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to fee=
d those people because of what I did; nobody else.”</p>
<p>Mexicans suffered the third massive crime of the United States in histor=
y: invasion and appropriation of half of its country at the point of guns a=
nd cannons. And since then Mexicans have witnessed the remaining half of t=
heir country occupied and exploited by the American world of business, with=
the cooperation of Mexico’s wealthy and managed elections. (The firs=
t being the enslavement and murder of Africans, the second, the murderous s=
ubjugation and theft of the lands of the Native nations of America.)</p>
<p>Quoting from a study made by a distinguished Mexican writer and journali=
st, Gustavo Esteva:</p>
<blockquote><p>“For some time now the social fabric and soul of Mexic=
o has been torn away. One third of Mexicans are actually living outside of =
the country =C2=96one of the greatest migrations in history. Since the sign=
ing of the NAFTA agreement, 20 million Mexican citizens have emigrated, the=
majority of them, to the United States and Canada, but some to countries a=
s distant as Japan. Most of them are trying to escape from unbearable condi=
tions in their place of origin or to support their families and communities=
from abroad. (The amount of remittances to Mexico, 22 billion dollars per =
year, is the second most important source of foreign income for Mexico, aft=
er oil).</p>
<p>Mexico no longer operates under a state of law. The violation of human r=
ights, especially rights of some fifty ethnic groups, is a constant. There =
is also continual persecution of human rights activists, environmentalists,=
journalists, and particularly, those struggling for social change. There i=
s a regression of democracy, a structural =C2=93deviation of power,=C2=94 a=
nd the co-optation of the law by distinct corporatist factions. The Inter-A=
merican Court of Human Rights defined this as =C2=93the use of the powers o=
f the State to persecute and hinder the civil rights of the people.=C2=94 &=
#8230; According to Amnesty International, the torture practiced by Mexica=
n security forces is a =C2=93generalized and systematic=C2=94 practice that=
in recent years has =C2=93reached scandalous levels.=C2=94 Impunity for th=
ese sadistic acts of violence, or human rights violations is practically ab=
solute.</p>
<p>More than 60 million Mexicans (of 115 million total) are living below th=
e poverty line. 50 million live with food insecurity, 12 million can=C2=92t=
afford basic or essential foods, 28 million are suffering from hunger, and=
3 million face famine. [statistics from documentation gathered by the Peop=
le's Permanent Tribunal]</p>
<p>Policies that interfere the internal production of corn deteriorate the =
economy directly in the indigenous communities, and can be seen as one of t=
he main factors determining migration. The attack on ancestral peasant farm=
ing systems, introduction of genetically altered variants and privatization=
of commons so crucial to native seeds devastates rural life and weakens co=
mmunities. For the invasion of peasant and indigenous territory for mega p=
rojects, mining operations, privatization of water, monoculture plantations=
, deforestation, and the expropriation of territory via programs for the me=
rcantilization of nature, agro-ecological balance is lost;</p>
<p>The government through dispossession is trying to =C2=93clear=C2=94 peop=
le off their communal lands, already given in 50-years concessions to priva=
te corporations. These lands occupy more than 30% of Mexico. The owners of =
the lands, mainly indigenous people are resisting. The Zapatistas poeticall=
y embody this resistance.</p>
<p>The pace of environmental destruction is unprecedented. Corrupt deregula=
tion initiatives and massive land concessions handed over to private intere=
sts have greatly accelerated the environmental devastation, which in some c=
ases, has resulted in irreversible damage. The air, water, soil/sub-soil, f=
orests, beaches, rivers, lakes, and oceans, all have been subject to rape a=
nd degradation through the commodification of nature by corporations.</p>
<p>In short, since the 1990=C2=92s, Mexico has adopted, in a systemic and i=
nstitutionalized way, policies and strategies that have produced a progress=
ive decline in the living conditions of the Mexican people and in their pos=
sibility to access legal protection when their rights are violated. The gov=
ernment alienates its citizens and marginalizes the rights of the people in=
the name of macro-economic stability and in order to serve corporate or pr=
ivate interests in larger part those of American speculative investment ban=
king.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Convictions like that of R=C3=ADos Montt will help unmask the Washington=
-Wall Street domination of elections and hold over unscrupulous politicians=
not only to the degree of mass homicide, but a slower and greater genocide=
in Mexico and the many nations to its South.</p>
<p>Good people in general and activists in particular throughout the hemisp=
here recognize the economic occupation and terrorism by Uncle Sam and are c=
alling for its prosecution as a crime against humanity. Cuba fought for, an=
d got its freedom from economic occupation and slow genocide. Today Cubans =
enjoy a longevity even a bit higher than that in the US and a lower infant =
mortality rate than in US.</p>
<p>Americans of good conscience must condemn their nations economic occupat=
ion and economic terror in neighboring Mexico and elsewhere.</p>
<p>Forty-seven years ago Martin Luther King Jr. cried out,</p>
<blockquote><p>=C2=93Look across the seas and see individual capitalists of=
the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, =
only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of t=
he country. This is a role our nation has taken, ... refusing to give up th=
e privileges and the pleasures that comes from the immense profits of overs=
eas investments. This is not just.=C2=94 … The greatest purveyor of v=
iolence in the world today is my own government.”</p></blockquote>
<p>King said “purveyor” not cause, for he held America, America=
ns, in anguish including himself, responsible, because the American people =
are capable of making their economic and military criminal aggression no lo=
nger acceptable and inoperable through non-participation, non-support, non-=
acquiescence and conscientious objection.</p>
<p><em><strong>Jay Janson,</strong> coordinator of the<a href=3D"http://r20=
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country by country history of US crimes and asks nothing at all from its v=
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