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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 01:53 AM Jan 2018

Assassinated: Former President of Guatemala's Supreme Court


Published 26 January 2018

Jose Arturo Sierra, the 72-year-old former president of Guatemala's Supreme Court, has been assasinated while in his car in the country's capital city.

Sierra was shot to death while traveling in a private car in Guatemala City's Zone 11. He was taken by local firefighters to Roosevelt Hospital, but died on the way.

Witnesses say Sierra was attacked by two armed assailants riding a motorcycle, but it's unkown the assassination was planned. Unconfirmed reports suggest he was shot up to seven times.

More:
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Assassinated-Former-President-of-Guatemalas-Supreme-Court-20180126-0033.html




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Assassinated: Former President of Guatemala's Supreme Court (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2018 OP
Vibes to Guatemala. applegrove Jan 2018 #1
They've been living in hell every day since US President Eisenhower sent his Marines to overthrow Judi Lynn Jan 2018 #2

Judi Lynn

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2. They've been living in hell every day since US President Eisenhower sent his Marines to overthrow
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 02:13 AM
Jan 2018

their beloved progressive President Jacobo Arbenz, who attempted to raise the standard of living for the wildly poor and abused vast majority and indigenous population in 1954. Hundreds of thousands of indigenous people have died at brutal government hands since 1954, as the US stepped in to put the country back in the hands of the US huge corporate interests of United Fruits (now Chiquita Bananas), and others.

Central America NEEDS Divine Intervention. Fast. They needed it nearly a century ago.

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