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"Butcher of Guatemala," because the slaughter of TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND MAYAN VILLAGERS, in Guatemala, during the 1980s, was accomplished with his direct complicity. No Reagan, no slaughter. He directly supported the fascist pigs who were committing these crimes, and knew what they were doing.
While it is laudable that a U.S. newspaper would even cover this photography exhibit, it is not so laudable how the writers (or is it the editors?) keep trying to include leftist guerrillas in this genocide.
Examples:
"The military instituted a 'scorched earth policy' and killed women, children and elderly people to prevent civilian support of the rebels. Making matters worse, some of the guerrillas killed people as a consequence for refusing them aid." (emphasis added)
"In one of the more powerful prints, skeletons of a survivor’s father, mother and wife are reminders of the devastating effect the military and rebel conflict had on families." (emphasis added)
The leftist guerrillas took up arms to fight the fascists because of the brutal economic and police state activities supported by the shit-heads in our government. They felt they had no options. And it is difficult to fault them for thinking that. Also, as we are increasingly discovering in Colombia, fascists kill innocent people and dress their bodies up like guerrillas, to up their body count for ghouls in Washington, and engage in all sorts of dirty tricks and psyops to slander any opposition, whether peaceful or not. Further, Amnesty International has established that 92% of the murders of union leaders in Colombia, as of 2005, have been perpetrated by the Colombian military and closely tied rightwing death squads, and only 2% by leftist guerrillas, and that 2% were likely people were in collusion with the Colombian fascist forces (according to AI). I certainly don't condone any extrajudicial killings--whether by the right or the left--but consider this scale: 92% by the fascists, 2% by the leftist guerrillas. The 92% with no war purpose or justification--simply bloody repression of dissent, on a massive scale. The 2% at least with some justification in the rules of war (collaborators get killed). I expect that the stats on Guatemala would be similar.
The article also downplays the slaughter and repression on-going in Colombia:
"Most of Thatch’s photos present challenging social realities in Colombia. For instance, a picture of men and women sitting outside in chairs relates the conditions of just a handful of millions of displaced people." (emphasis added)
Millions of displaced, yes. And also tens of thousands murdered, often in unbelievably brutal ways--all supported by billions of our tax dollars, recently. The phrase "challenging social realities" hardly describes the on-going horrors in Colombia. And this treatment of the current horrors in Colombia, by our corpo/fascist press, is an example of how the horrors in Guatemala could have proceeded under Reagan, without an outcry by American people, and with most Americans knowing nothing about it. The corpo/fascist press was so enchanted with "cowboy" Reagan, and so addicted to the corporate and war profits that Reagan ensured, that they covered up one of the worst massacres in the western hemisphere, when it was happening, and in the decades afterward, and to this day. They are doing the same thing with regard to Colombia now.
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