Guatemala police arrest US woman

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Guatemala police arrest US woman

| December 12, 2014 | Updated: December 12, 2014 4:53pm


GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A 60-year-old U.S. citizen under arrest in Guatemala on extortion charges says she's the victim of identity theft.

Debra Lee Gish of Washington, D.C., said Friday that two years ago she was assaulted by criminals who stole her identification and used it to open a Guatemalan bank account in her name where they collected two extortion payments from bus companies. She said she was not even in Guatemala during one of the deposits attributed to her. She said she never opened the bank account.

Guatemalan police arrested Gish on Wednesday at her home in Santiago Atitlan, 150 kilometers (90 miles) from the capital. She was hospitalized after falling ill following her arrest.

Gish has worked as a consultant on justice projects in Guatemala since 1998.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Guatemala-police-arrest-US-woman-5953611.php

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[Comrade Grumpy]

1. "Gish has worked as a consultant on justice projects in Guatemala since 1998."

And now she's getting a close up taste. I am sorry for this woman.

[Octafish]

2. CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents

What Ms. Gish is working to help rectify...

...PBSUCCESS, authorized by President Eisenhower in August 1953, carried a $2.7 million budget for "pychological warfare and political action" and "subversion," among the other components of a small paramilitary war. But, according to the CIA's own internal study of the agency's so-called "K program," up until the day Arbenz resigned on June 27, 1954, "the option of assassination was still being considered." While the power of the CIA's psychological-war, codenamed "Operation Sherwood," against Arbenz rendered that option unnecessary, the last stage of PBSUCCESS called for "roll-up of Communists and collaborators." Although Arbenz and his top aides were able to flee the country, after the CIA installed Castillo Armas in power, hundreds of Guatemalans were rounded up and killed. Between 1954 and 1990, human rights groups estimate, the repressive operatives of sucessive military regimes murdered more than 100,000 civilians....

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/

Her current ordeal is the "unintended consequences" of the USA using "whatever means necessary" to defend capitalism.

[Judi Lynn]

3. The link you've posted is irreplaceable. This information has not been easily obtained. Thanks. n/t