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Judges or Executioners?

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Published in El Pais
(Spain) on 18 May 2011
by Miquel Izard (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Karin Riechenberg. Edited by Mark DeLucas.
Many were scandalized by the execution of Osama bin Laden. However, this is something that the United States has been perpetrating and ordering its hitmen to do since it was founded. It liquidated the Native Americans in its move westward. Further, it disposed of several Cuban patriots, Puerto Ricans and Filipinos from 1898 onward, most famously Augusto Sandino and Che Guevara. The country can boast about freedom and democracy; still it is the sheriff of the world. First it shoots to kill, and afterward it gives the explanations needed to receive the blessings of “the people in charge.”


Muchos se escandalizan por la ejecución de Osama Bin Laden. Pero es algo que Estados Unidos perpetra u ordena a sus sicarios desde su fundación. Liquidó a los aborígenes en su avance hacia el Oeste y, para citar solo algún caso, a varios patriotas cubanos, puertorriqueños o filipinos a partir de 1898, a Sandino o al Che. Pueden alardear de libertad o democracia pero son el sheriff del mundo: primero disparan a matar y luego dan las explicaciones que hagan falta para recibir el plácet de la "gente de orden".

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