This video, in English, is called Intervencion de la CIA en Guatemala [1954] - 1 of 5.
From British daily The Morning Star:
InterviewTrade unionist killed in Guatemala: here.(Tuesday 26 June 2007)
DRIVEN BY SOCIAL JUSTICE: Political poet Abigail Zammit.
ABIGAIL ZAMMIT explains to ANDY CROFT what drove her to write a book of poetry about brutal US-funded killings in Guatemala.
“Do you think we’ve left proof? In Argentina, there are witnesses, there are books, there are films, there is proof. Here in Guatemala, there is none of that. There are no survivors,” said Guatemalan army public relations chief Colonel Edgar d’Jalma Dominguez in 1984.
The story of Guatemala’s 36-year-long civil war is a familiar one of exploitation, poverty and repression in pursuit of US interests.
But the “silent holocaust” of Guatemala was extraordinarily brutal, even by the standards of central America, involving CIA-trained death squads, the widespread use of torture and rape, the deliberate targeting of churches and the genocide of 200,000 indigenous peoples.
By the late 1970s, even the US government was embarrassed by the scale of the killings and Jimmy Carter halted military aid to the Guatemalan government.
The Maltese writer Abigail Zammit recently visited Guatemala with the Roman Catholic charity Mission Fund. She was there to help build the first floor of a hospital for disabled children in Jalapa.
Hi. Thanks for the U-Tube video - it explains the political situation really well and
furnishes the right background for my collection of poems (Voices from the Land of Trees,
Smokestack, July 2007)about the silent holocaust of Guatemala. I hope that as many people
as possible will understand what really went on.
Comment by Author — June 28, 2007 @ 12:13 pm
Hi Abigail, thanks for reacting! All the best for your book; and for the people of Guatemala; of Malta; everywhere!
Comment by Administrator — June 28, 2007 @ 4:54 pm