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Rodrigo Abd / AP
Elsy Castillo, 25, cries as she is evicted from the Jacobo Arbenz settlement by military and police personnel in Guatemala City on Aug. 15, 2012. Security forces evicted about 200 families on Monday from vacant lots in the Jacobo Arbenz settlement, which is located in front a military base. On Wednesday, forces returned to the area to remove families that didn't leave.
Rodrigo Abd / AP
A woman threatens a police officer with a wooden stick as she is evicted from the Jacobo Arbenz housing settlement in Guatemala City on Aug. 15.
Jorge Dan Lopez / Reuters
People retrieve their belongings during a military operation to evict families camping near the the Jacobo Arbenz settlement in Guatemala City on Aug. 15.
Jorge Dan Lopez / Reuters
A child watches military police officers evict families camping near the Jacobo Arbenz settlement in Guatemala City on Aug. 15.
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How pitiful. How Shameful.
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Journalism 101: Answer the questions who, what, when, where, and why. This "photojournalistic" piece does not fill the requirement.
Like so many stories, it's supposed to invoke an emotional knee-jerk reaction.
I do not think real journalism exists anymore. Only info-tainment for the masses. People need to understand that everything in propaganda and their own research is needed to find the real answers.
they should really start to hire at least high school graduates to write articles, this is pitiful.
Where is the text to go along with this article.The history of the camp,the laws of Guatemalah,and MANY more detail? THis is yellow journalism of the worst.Photos to inflame without real explanations..This is too charged not to give extensive background info.. Much more info NBC!!. As it stand now,it´s a little like showing a man shot to death.withour the previous photo of him with a machine gun threatening people : I´m obviously not equating the campers with a man with a macine gun..but the effect is the same.Yellow journalism and inflamatory photos without real texts!!
I was just about to say the same thing. I don't know why those families are there. How long have they been? If I'm supposed to feel sorry for these people, at least tell me why in more than four sentences.
waiting for the U.S. Govt. to send in the military and fly them too saftey in the U.S., where they will be given a warm welcome by POTUS! and assured of free health care, education with special ed. teachers, food stamps and a card asking PLEASE VOTE FOR ME!
Shut your pie hole.
Well, Argue seeing a bunch of poor people getting the hell beat out of them by a bunch of thugs, does something to me. Poor people in Guatemala are not valued much by the wealthy people who own and run the country.
Really? Getting the hell beat out of them? The only picture showing any violence shows a woman getting ready to hit an Officer with a stick and the Officer in a defensive pose. The word "evict" tells me that they do not legally own the land and are trespassing.
So tell us, what righteous cause are these "poor people" fighting for? What atrocities have these "thugs", as you call them, perpetrated against these people?
You seem to have knowledge that "reporters" are not privy to. Please, enlighten us.
"Well, Argue seeing a bunch of poor people getting the hell beat out of them by a bunch of thugs"REALLY?if that was the good ol USA, they wouldve been shot immediately for raising a club to a police officer!Hope your bleeding heart gets a reality check soon.And yes, they were Trespassing!Geeze
http://www.upsidedownworld.org/main/guatemala-archives-33/3279-justice-and-jacobo-arbenz-in-guatemala-1954-revisited Actual information, what a thought!
Thanks for posting that link. It can be said, that most Americans really don't have a clue as to how our Government really works, and why people in so many countries like Guatemala, hate us. I too would take up arms against the U.S.
My sister spent years there, helping the poor.
A senseless article of course, but that's how I interpret it: In Guatemala the land belong to 1% super-rich landlords (the former conquistadors) and to a few foreign corporations. The poor , which makes 99%, have nothing but a lot of children. Because they are more catholic than the Pope, and the Pope tells them to breed like rabbits, and God will take care of them. Abortions are forbidden by the church and the state, birth control unavailable, and the church tell them that it is a deadly sin to use birth control any way. So the number of poor people is increasing but the gardens they have around the houses are the same, so they can't grow more food and can't build more houses on it. And can't get extra land for farming because it belongs to private corporations and conquistador families. It is a vicious cycle.
And that's why Catholics like me in US sponsor families so they can get out of the cycle of poverty, go to school and have healthcare.
There's too many people on this Earth.
As the population continues to grow THINGS WILL GET WORSE.
Men and women are doing nothing good for a child born into a starving world with ever decreasing natural resources. When will religions back off.... Mormons, Catholics, etc. "STOP ENCOURAGING OVERPOPULATION."
The religions will never back off. They never did. Only when people will start killing each other for food and water, and the religious nuts will get affected by this violence, then they might back off. But the poor are extremely stupid too.They are killing the other poor, they are suffering from malnutrition, illnesses, but they take the last money to the church and kiss the hands of those parasites and ask them to pray for them to God, so God will help them to find some food.
The event thats unfolding in the world, will soon end, when the "ANNUNAKEIS" arrive!
My parents live about three blocks from this site. These people invaded the rim of a large canyon which has been used as a garbage dump for years. As bad as that sounds, this canyon is (was) on of the few green spaces left in my neighborhood. The land belongs to all Guatemalans and not to a group of thieves. There is a lot of poverty in Guatemala and it certainly will not be resolved by people not respecting property rights. I have no pity for these people. This is the internal immigration problem we have in Guatemala -- people moving from rural areas to the city. Peasants have ruined Guatemala City.