U.S. Intelligence, Academia and Central America

1. U.S. Intelligence, Academia and Central America • Known CIA and DoD collaborators and front organizations in the Central American Cold War Culture Wars • USAID, AFL/CIO (labor issues), BCCI (Obama’s old organization) • CAM: Central American Missions, Wycliffe Bible Translators • Drug Smuggling and Direct Violence • School of the Americas – Training death squads throughout Central America • Contra-Cocaine smugglers from Norwin Menses to Freeway Ricky Ross, and currently the Sineloa Cartel Connection. • Profits from drug smuggling do not get reported on the budget. Thus, there is no congressional oversight on how it’s spent. • MKUltra and MHChaos: Cornell, University of Michigan, UCB and UPenn, Harvard, Yale and 200 other universities • David Stoll, Franz Boaz, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead • 90% of ALL RESEARCH IN AMERICA has been funded through ther NSF, NIH or Homeland Security by either the Defense Department or the CIA from WWII to the Late 1997; that number is still 75%. Social Science, particularly anthropology and psychology budgets top military technology research spending.

2. Rigoberta MenchuNobel Peace Prize, 1993

3. Rigoberta Menchu Nobel Address I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992. A deep personal feeling and pride for my country and its very ancient culture. For the values of the community and the people to which I belong, for the love of my country, of Mother Nature. Whoever understands this respects life and encourages the struggle that aims at such objectives. I consider this Prize, not as an award to me personally, but rather as one of the greatest conquests in the struggle for peace, for human rights and for the rights of the Indigenous people who, along all these 500 years, have been split, fragmented, as well as the victims of genocide, repression and discrimination. Please allow me to convey to you all, what this Prize means to me. In my opinion, the Nobel Peace Prize calls upon us to act in accordance with what it represents, and the great significance it has worldwide. … This Nobel Prize represents a standard-bearer that encourages us to continue denouncing the violation of human rights, committed against the people in Guatemala, in American and in the world, and to perform a positive role in respect to the most pressing task in my county, i.e., to achieve peace and social justice.

4. 500th Anniversary of Post-Colombian World • We the Indians are willing to combine tradition with modernization, but not at all costs. We will not tolerate nor permit that our future be planned as possible guardians of ethno-touristic projects at a continental level. • At a time when the commemoration of the fifth century of the arrival of Columbus in America has repercussions all over the world, the revival of hopes for the Indian people claims that we reassert to the world our existence and the value of our cultural identity. It demands that we endeavor to actively participate in the decisions that concern our destiny, in the building-up of our countries/nations. Should we, in spite of all, not be taken into consideration, there are factors that guarantee our future: struggle and endurance; courage; the decision to maintain our traditions that have been exposed to so many perils and sufferings; solidarity towards our struggle on the part of numerous countries, governments, organizations and citizens of the world. • That is why I dream of the day when the relationship between the Indigenous people and other people is strengthened; when they can join their potentialities and their capabilities and contribute to make life on this planet less unequal. … All this will be conducted in the most reasonable way and with the most convincing and justified arguments for the elimination of racism, oppression, discrimination and the exploitation of those who have been dragged into poverty and oblivion.

5. Human rights, women’s rights • Democracy in Guatemala must be built up as soon as possible. It is necessary that human rights be fully complied with. We must put an end to racism, guarantee freedom to organize and to move within all sectors of the country. In short, it is imperative to open the fields to the multi-ethnic civil society with all its rights, to demilitarize the country and establish the basis for its development, so that it can be pulled out of today's underdevelopment and poverty. • In the new Guatemalan society there must be a fundamental reorganization in the matter of land possession, to allow for the development of the agricultural potential, as well as the return to the legitimate owners of the land that was taken away from them. And not to forget that this process of reorganization must be carried out with the greatest respect towards nature, in order to protect her and return to her, her strength and capability to generate life. • No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infantile mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education, wages not sufficient to sustain life. These problems have a growing and painful impact on the Guatemalan population and there are no prospects and no hopes.Among the features that characterize society today, is the role of the woman, although woman emancipation has not been fully achieved so far by any country in the world.

6. Why would a Prominent American Anthropologist Diss Rigoberta Menchu in the NY Times? • How the Nation’s Most Esteemed Newspaper Support CIA PoliciesOn the CIA's eyes and ears in remote places, the Summer Institute of Linguistics/Wycliffe Bible Translators see the controversial, (for his work on R. Menchu) David Stoll, he has two books worth a look see, "Is Latin America Turning Protestant, " from U.C. Press and, "Fishers of Men or Founders of Empire?, " from Zed Press. http://www.pir.org/gw/cam.txt Principals: Cyrus Ingerson Schofield, founder.(1) • Background: Central American Mission (CAM) was organized in Dallas, Texas in 1890 by three real estate businessmen and their preacher, Cyrus Ingerson Schofield. Through his work with CAM Schofield became one of the intellectual fathers of the fundamentalist movement and a leader of the contemporary evangelical movement.(1) Another major figure in the early history of CAM was Cameron Townsend. Townsend--who introduced the concept of bringing the Bible to native people in their own languages--went on to found and head Wycliffe Bible Translators. He worked with CAM from 1917 through 1932.(1) • CAM is considered to be a part of the second wave of Protestant development in Central America, following the first wave spearheaded by mainline denominations in the 19th century. After World War II, Central America experienced an influx of pentecostal evangelicals and many abandoned CAM as being too conservative. By the 1960s CAM adjusted its operations and began to work jointly with the pentecostal churches of the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association. Although CAM as an organization expressed discomfort with the religious right and the Reagan administration's activities in Central America in the 1980s, its field organizations expanded dramatically and in some war-torn areas CAM may have worked side-by-side with government agencies and troops within the countries of Central America.(5)

7. Resources on the Controversey • http://www.wmich.edu/teachenglish/subpages/literature/rigobertamenchu.htm • http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1999/oct/21/i-rigoberta-menchu/ • http://www.thenation.com/article/154582/it-was-heaven-they-burned?page=full • http://www.fygeditores.com/sanford/doc/Selected_Guatemala/2000%20The%20silencing%20of%20Maya%20women%20from%20mama%20maquinto%20rigobert.pdf

8. Defeat from the Jaws ofVictory? (Reuters, August 29, 2007) • A candidate of the party of the presidential candidate Rigoberta Menchú, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, was shot dead by gunmen, the latest killing in the approach to the Sept. 9 election, in which 40 people have been killed. • The candidate, Clara Luz López, was running for a seat on the Casillas City Council and was killed driving home after a day's campaigning on Monday. • The elections race has been the most violent since the country's civil war ended a decade ago, as drug traffickers try to win political power to transport Colombian cocaine through Guatemala to Mexico and the United States. • 4,897 Guatemalan women have been murdered through from 2000-2009. • http://www.ghrc-usa.org/Programs/ForWomensRighttoLive/FAQs.htm

9. Security for Who and Who Pays for It According to John Stockwell, former CIA station chief in Africa, Central America and Vietnam, the death toll from CIA covert wars stood at 6 million dead according the Church Senate Committee in 1976. The Death toll in the Korean War was around one million, Vietnam, about 2.5 million, the latest Middle East conflicts stand at 1.4 million according to John Hopkins University and British Medical Journal Lancet. Numbers have been confirmed in follow-up studies. Death tolls from Angola, Congo and Rwanda have not been accurately tabulated yet, but the CIA, according to Wayne Madsen, former NSA official, has been training child armies from Rwanda to fight in the east Congo for control of a region that is the only place producing a mineral essential to making cell phones. Overall, the Congo wars over ten years. By my count, a conservative estimate for deaths caused by American sponsored wars thus tops 14 million since World War II. Death is thus the leading export of America and has been for over 60 years. Do we feel safe yet? Don’t kid yourselves. The whole world pays for us to feel safe.