America tortured her. The CIA oversaw. They were trained by us.
She was tortured. Like many I met in Guatemala. In 1988-1989, my first time there. Blood rained.
The US government, the CIA, the presidents, they gaslit her. AND SHE WAS RIGHT.
They told her she was lying! And she persisted! She was tortured in ways that will make you vomit, and our government still gaslit her! AND SHE DID NOT GIVE UP.
She’s a saint to me now.
She’s a saint who goes up on my altar with Gerardi.
Did you know Leon Black’s dad was the head of United Fruit Company, which is why the CIA invaded and overthrew Guatemala, and he walked out of a 44th story window to his death after overseeing many assassinations?
Many bad guys today trace their power to this era of horror in Central America.
THEY SAID SHE WAS LYING. America and Guatemala accused her of fantasizing being gang raped, burned with cigarettes, and hung over a pit of corpses for 24 hours. They gaslit her. They said it was a hoax. Perpetrated by a woman. Who was a nun. Teaching Maya kids how to write.
We still don’t know the identity of “Alejandro,” the man with a US-accent who removed Dianna Ortiz from torture. He is presumed CIA. @POTUS@VP have the power to unredact that blacked-out FOIA she received. Who was Alejandro? We must own the sins of CIA in Guatemala.
She survived all of this, and cancer got her. It’s the only enemy I truly fear, too.
62 is so young. Fuck cancer.
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You can’t listen to Congolese jazz pop from the early 1970s and maintain foul mood status
Type Verckys into your music app of choice, thank me later.
Randomly stumbled on this very well selected midcentury African jazz-funk-pop playlist, enjoying it. Tidal is great on music streaming audio quality, lame on curation in general. But this is good. tidal.com/playlist/f38fb…
The news from our rural SW Utah neighborhood is that one of our neighbors captured video on their phone of a bald eagle picking up a fish at the reservoir and eating it very slowly. It’s a nice little video.
The other news is that they set it to the vocal piano interlude from Dark side of the moon and as a result it is an extremely disturbing video
You could pretty much take any video and add that vocal Interlude to it and it would be super intense and dark and menacing
A fantastic thing about 2021 is I don’t have to give a shît what the president is doing, I know he’s doing his damn job
The møtherfücker ain’t gõlfing
Like I actually don’t have any interest in politics at all, but I felt I had to know every move the monster was making so I would know when we were all going to die
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No threat to life - not a breast cancer recurrence, I am a 9 year survivor and so many of you good people were concerned. I’m safe for today. Please do not worry, 🙏 direct your concern & earnest willingness to help at those who truly need it. There are many. Thank you I love you