So long since my local political education in Xela, so many beers and beaches and westernized towns, I have forgotten that I had not just come here to learn to speak the language, but that I had come to learn more about this small country just three hours south by plane, that so many of us know so little about. In the past few days, I've been re-educating myself, and in doing so have rememered why it is I am here, why I need to return home, and why I hope to learn more about the fight against the terrorism that has been waged by the United States Government for countless years in countries of which so many of us have never even heard.
It started with a movie, Imagining Argentina, that like few before, made me stop and re-evaluate my life, the importance of global awareness, and all that we take for granted in our every day lives. It continued with a trip to a local bookstore to peruse a collection of articles documenting the atrocities that the Guatemalan governement has, and continues to, commit, and the role that the US Government played in these horrors (at a time when I could have been much more aware).
Perhaps the following articles, will also enlighten some of you as to the hypocracy of our "fighting for freedom" in other countries, as they did me.
Reagan & Guatemala’s Death Files
Why Won't Bush Condemn Rios Montt, the 'Central American Saddam Hussein'?
Jennifer K. Harbury Knows American Torture Starts at the Top, and It Has for Decades
The School of the Americas
Human Rights Watch
What we can do
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