Guatemala City.- The international main stream media and the jurists that have been writing about the trial of Guatemala’s former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, have shown me one thing: there is nothing more deadly and dis-informative as a politically correct news story that has to be presented in 500 words or less, we do not want to overburden the ignorant reader with too much information, do we?
Keep it short and sweet, easily swallowed by any reader. Justice has been done, bravo! And what relevance has Guatemala anyway; most people don’t even know where it is.
The deafening silence of the main stream media about the atrocities that occurred 30 years ago during the cold war is supposed to be remedied by politically correct coverage focusing on human rights today, but not the context of how it came to pass. Not one publication addresses the historic context of the case, much less the atrocious role the US foreign policy in the region played in the that “dirty war” that lasted over 35 years in Guatemala.
Without exception, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Euro-news, Telegraph, Christian Science Monitor, U.S. Catholic magazine, Radio Netherland, blogs form “jurists”, Global Voices Online (supposedly independent thinkers) and even The Guardian, usually a relieve and exception with it’s quality reporting, have shown dangerous signs of collective historic amnesia.
If you take the time to study the history of US intervention in Guatemala, as in so many other countries that resulted in Dictators and atrocities, you will see that it was, and still is the US Foreign Policy Strategy to foment abuse and dictatorships that provide "stability" according to US interests. Just look at Saudi Arabia. One example is enough.
The media dedicates 100% of the article on describing "the monster" and cero percent to the people who crated "the monster". Is that comprehensive coverage?
Smells like and looks like the politically correct coverage on Saddam Hussein, ex- President of Iraq, former US ally and then suddenly, to please the White House and Downing Street the media paints him as a monster, who existed and became a monster in a vacuum, all by himself, had no help.
I am sick and tired of this politically correct reporting of the main stream media that has convenient collective historic amnesia. Especially in view of the US war on drugs that is killing thousands of Guatemalans today, now at this precise moment.
Is it just another US geopolitical accident that we provide the body count, and the US snorts cocaine, sells weapons, makes billions with the military industrial complex and has a liquid economy, blessed be the narco dollars, all thanks to the war on drugs that will never be won. This is outrageous.
By the way, I am not anti -American, they just happen to be our mighty geographic accident up in the north, if the Chinese had done it or the French, or anybody else, I would be naming them.
Another point, The Guatemala Times is politically incorrect and we hope to stay that way forever or close down.
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