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Hephaestion
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posted 27 February 2006 05:12 AM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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(NYC) The Guatemalan government is accused of doing little or nothing to stem a growing number of violent attacks on gays and the transgendered.

Human Rights Watch, an international organization based in New York, suggests at least some of the violence has been carried out or instigated by police.

[...]

One transgender woman was murdered and another was critically wounded on December 17 when they were gunned down on a street in Guatemala City. 

The women were stopped by four men on motorcycles at an intersection in the center of Guatemala City. Eyewitnesses reported that the assailants were wearing police uniforms and riding police motorcycles that identified them as members of the national police. 

The assailants shot one of the women twice in the head, killing her immediately. They shot the other three times, and she is still recuperating from her injuries, Human Rights Watch said.

Both women worked for the Organización de Apoyo a una Sexualidad Integral frente al SIDA (OASIS), a nongovernmental organization that works to prevent HIV/AIDS and to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

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Fidel
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posted 27 February 2006 06:04 AM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It looks like OASIS is basically a human rights group. Groups like this are still in grave danger in a country like Guatemala, i'm sorry to say.

Amnesty: Guatemala's 'feminicide'

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The violence also bears a historical resonance that has exhumed the collective trauma of Guatemala's recent past. Some have compared the perpetrators' methods to those used against women during the government's counterinsurgency operations throughout the 36-year-long civil war that ended in 1996. During the U.S.-backed "scorched earth" campaign, government troops and their paramilitary allies routinely raped, tortured and murdered women in order to destroy civilian communities suspected of leftist sympathies.

The war left an untold number of women suffering from the invisible wounds of widespread sexual violence and torture, as well as legions of men bearing more visible scars. Retired general Efrain Rios Montt - the "intellectual author" of the war crimes, according to some scholars-not only remains free but was even president of Congress until 2004 and ran for Guatemala's presidency in 2003.


amnesty usa

ETA: This country is ripe for a revolution along with Chiapas, Honduras and that other BANANA REPUBLIC, El Salvador. Those bastards need cleaning the fuck out but good.

Viva la revolucion!!!

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posted 03 March 2006 06:46 AM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Imo, anything that draws attention to what are war criminals and former right-wing death squad leaders running around free in those BANANA REPUBLICS, is justified. Gross human rights abuses and abject poverty are still common themes in these Central American shitholes struggling under kleptocracies. I think the leaders of those countries have worked hard in earning the right to be labelled BANANA REPUBLIC if only from the safety of our living rooms. I'm sure that officials and rich people running those countries and can afford web access wouldn't appreciate seeing their homelands referred to in this way. Anyone else ?.

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rici
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posted 03 March 2006 01:14 PM      Profile for rici     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
'Twasn't I who raised the objection, but I do know Guatemalans who wouldn't particularly appreciate that description of their country although they may whole-heartedly agree with your description of the ruling elite as a kleptocracy. There would be a tendency to think that the comment applied to all of Guatemala, and all Guatemalans. I don't think that was your intent.

In any event, on the whole, I don't really see how scatological vocabulary advances any debate.


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Fidel
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posted 03 March 2006 05:38 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ok then, BANANA REPUBLICS And I think that's flaterring the bastards.
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posted 03 March 2006 06:50 PM      Profile for Vigilante        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
There kina was a revolution in Chiapas.
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Fidel
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posted 03 March 2006 08:28 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Yes, we know. And we already know you have no idea about what's going on down in those countries just a few days drive from Texas - a conveyor belt of death in its own right.
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posted 03 March 2006 08:38 PM      Profile for Vigilante        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well yes Fidel there is death at times through Mexican state repression. However when it comes to the governance structure of Chiapas, it is actually pretty popular down there.
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Fidel
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posted 04 March 2006 04:22 AM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Vigilante:
Well yes Fidel there is death at times through Mexican state repression. However when it comes to the governance structure of Chiapas, it is actually pretty popular down there.

Chiapas suffers from the highest rate of malnutrition in Mexico. What in hell are you talking about, or do you know?. Oh ya, they want subsistence existence. Get a clue!.


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posted 04 March 2006 02:12 PM      Profile for Vigilante        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Again what does that have to do with their governance structure?
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Fidel
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posted 04 March 2006 02:31 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Are you going to talk over my head and their's in Chiapas with really boring 17-18th century philosophy ?.
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posted 04 March 2006 03:58 PM      Profile for Vigilante        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well seeing as your into progress it would appear that you are the one into the 17th and 18th.
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