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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Documents Show Reagan Gave Go-Ahead To Mayan Genocide
By Susie Madrak
Robert Parry on a newly-released document that spells out how President Ronald Reagan promoted genocide in Central America:
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/new-documents-show-reagan-gave-go
Robert Parry on a newly-released document that spells out how President Ronald Reagan promoted genocide in Central America:
Soon after taking office in 1981, President Ronald Reagans national security team agreed to supply military aid to the brutal right-wing regime in Guatemala to pursue the goal of exterminating not only Marxist guerrillas but their civilian support mechanisms, according to a newly disclosed document from the National Archives.
Over the next several years, the military assistance from the Reagan administration helped the Guatemalan army do just that, engaging in the slaughter of some 100,000 people, including what a truth commission deemed genocide against the Mayan Indians in the northern highlands.
Recently discovered documents at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, also reveal that Reagans White House was reaching out to Israel in a scheme to circumvent congressional restrictions on military equipment for the Guatemalan military.
In 1983, national security aide Oliver North (who later became a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal) reported in a memo that Reagans Deputy National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane (another key Iran-Contra figure) was approaching Israel over how to deliver 10 UH-1H helicopters to Guatemala to give the army greater mobility in its counterinsurgency war.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/new-documents-show-reagan-gave-go
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New Documents Show Reagan Gave Go-Ahead To Mayan Genocide (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Apr 2013
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bluedigger
(17,087 posts)1. Don't be disturbin' the spirits, man.
It's bad Juju.
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)2. Metaphorically spitting on Reagan's grave
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)3. kr