The Partido Patriota flag that was draped on the school walls
Last year I told you how the local candidate for the fascist Partido Patriota put on a mother’s day party at a Catholic church near La Escuela de la Montaña. This is an election year in Guatemala’s pseudo-democracy so he held a mother’s day party at a local primary school. Notice the party logo – a white fist. The White Hand – Mano Blanco in Spanish – was the name of ultra right wing death squads, that carried out, murder, torture and disappearances of trade unionists, human rights activists etc. Often they would paint a white hand on the victim’s door. The PP leader, and presidential candidate is Otto Pérez Molina, a retired general and former head of the G-2, the Guatemalan Gestapo. He is held responsible for torture, disappearances, the murder of a soldier in order to fake the corpse of a guerilla leader, and acts of genocide during the civil war, in the department of Quiche. He is good friends with the U.S. ambassador…
Party political propaganda for the Patriot Party. Genocidal general Otto Pérez Molina is shown on the left.
