Chris Hedges Report: Israel Also Sponsored a Genocide in Guatemala like the Dirty War and Batalanda torture camps in Sri Lanka?
Posted on September 2nd, 2025
The Chris Hedges Report
August 9, 2025
Author and attorney Jennifer Harbury describes the Silent Holocaust” in Guatemala and its links to the genocide in Gaza, using any methods of barbarity necessary.”
Known as the Silent Holocaust,” the genocide in Guatemala is seldom mentioned in modern history.
The United States, with support from Israel, backed yet another violent crusade against an indigenous population as well as against communism.
The Guatemalan genocide — preceded by a C.I.A.-instigated coup d’état of the Guatemalan government in 1954 and the ensuing civil war — saw hundreds of thousands of the Mayan Indigenous peoples and alleged communists massacred or disappeared.
Jennifer Harbury, an attorney, author and human rights activist, witnessed the horrors of the genocidal campaign waged by the U.S.-backed Guatemalan military. Included in these horrors was the torture and disappearance of her husband, Mayan rebel leader Efraín Bámaca Velásquez (known as Everardo) by C.I.A.-backed Guatemalan military officials.
Harbury joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to dissect the brutal history of the genocide as well as recount her own experiences, including several hunger strikes in Guatemala and Washington, D.C., that ultimately led to the exposure of the C.I.A.’s complicity in the atrocities.
Please see this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PEg0ai_lAk
Host: Chris Hedges
Producer: Max Jones
Intro: Diego Ramos
Crew: Diego Ramos, Sofia Menemenlis and Thomas Hedges
Transcript: Diego Ramos
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