F. FANNING THE FLAMES IN GUATEMALA
"LaRouche on the pact with terror in Guatemala" (excerpt from interview transcript, 1996). Complains that a "process of demobilizing the resistance against terrorism" is underway, and that Guatemala has "signed a pact of submission, in effect, to the terrorists..." In other words, LaRouche opposes the policy of replacing military rule and murderous civil war with a democratic system--he wanted the killing to go on. His prediction of a terrorist takeover in Guatemala (like most of his predictions) has been revealed over the last decade to be completely wrong.
LaRouche (1996) boasts about his relationship with the former Guatemalan death-squad regime. "During 1985...I assisted the government of Guatemala with technical advice on the matter of narco-terrorists within and athwart its national borders. The proximate outcome of this technical advice was one of the most successful anti-narco-terrorist operations of the 1980s, conducted entirely by sovereign forces of Guatemala, called 'Operation Guatusa.'"
Jeffrey Steinberg, the hero of "Operation Guatusa," makes excuses for the Guatemalan deaths squads (1986). "The urban-based side of the insurgency buildup has been facilitated by the non-stop anti-Cerezo [he means Guatemalan President Vinicio Cerezo] agitation of the GAM, the so-called Mutual Support Group, which is the principal Guatemalan front of the international human rights mafia. Using doctored studies prepared by Amnesty International and OxFam, GAM is claiming 40,000 'disappeared' persons were killed by the Guatemalan 'death squads' over the past decade. GAM demands that Cerezo dismantle the armed forces and institute the kind of show-trials of the generals that President Alfonsin has carried out under IMF orders in Argentina." Steinberg's reference to Argentina reflects the viewpoint of LaRouche's ally Col. Seineldin, whose attempted coup d'etats were aimed at getting amnesty (and indeed, vindication) for Argentina's worst military and secret-police torturers, rapists and mass murderers.
LaRouche aides supposedly accompanied a Guatemalan military delegation to the Pentagon in 1985 to discuss the success of Operation Guatusa. This claim is made in a 2005 EIR polemic aimed at discrediting former Catholic members of the LaRouche organization whom LaRouche had purged over the preceding five years. Essentially LaRouche tries to blame all of his sinister activities in Latin America on these individuals. The absurdity of such a claim is shown by the preceding three files above. For the entire text of the polemic, written by convicted felon William Wertz (a key figure in LaRouche's loan scams in the 1980s), click HERE.
