Guatemala 'political' priest dead (assassination)

IndianaGreen

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Tue Dec-16-03 12:07 AM
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Guatemala 'political' priest dead (assassination)

Looks like the work of one of our graduates from the School of the Americas at Fort Benning!

Last Updated: Monday, 15 December, 2003, 21:34 GMT
Guatemala 'political' priest dead

Gunmen in Guatemala have shot dead a Roman Catholic priest who was twice a candidate for mayor of the capital.

Jose Maria Ruiz Furlan, 72, was shot several times as he left a church in a poor neighbourhood of Guatemala City.

Father Ruiz, regarded as a staunch defender of the poor, had often been criticised by his superiors in the Church for his involvement in politics.

Guatemala has yet to recover from the murder in 1998 of renowned human rights campaigner, Bishop Juan Gerardi.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3322631.stm

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burrowowl

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Tue Dec-16-03 12:19 AM
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1. It still continues

and guess which superpower has its hand in this.
It makes me sick!

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westerby

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Tue Dec-16-03 05:11 AM
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4. Superpower?

Do you call Al Quaida that?
Sad that these terrorists are active worldwide.

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Suspicious

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Tue Dec-16-03 07:51 AM
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5. al Qaeda?

What are you talking about?

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Tue Dec-16-03 12:26 AM
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2. Oh, no, not another of those

"right-wing death squads" that kill scores of people without ever being caught or even detected?

Don't they know that Guatemala has "democracy" now? /sarcasm

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pansypoo53219

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Tue Dec-16-03 12:56 AM
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3. merry x-mas in bush's world

anything else he can bring back from RR era. how about selling arms to terrorists?

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CWebster

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Tue Dec-16-03 08:00 AM
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6. Your opening sentence says it all nt

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