The former dictator of Guatemala, Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, was just convicted by a Guatemalan court of genocide of the indigenous Maya people, back in the early 1980s. Do I know this guy? I had never heard of him.
During the 1980s, when I was living in Illinois, my home was across the road from the entrance to a country club--golf course, etc. Because of that handy location, a friend prevailed upon me to allow a large campaign sign to be placed in my yard. It was for the initial run of Republican Jerry Weller for the House. He was elected. I met him once, briefly.
Years later, he married a wealthy Guatemalan woman. Weller has subsequently been accused of failing to report a number of large Guatemalan land transactions, while he was still a member of the House. Also, as it turns out, his wife is the daughter of the now convicted Guatemalan dictator.
Somehow, I feel tainted by that connection.
Bob
During the 1980s, when I was living in Illinois, my home was across the road from the entrance to a country club--golf course, etc. Because of that handy location, a friend prevailed upon me to allow a large campaign sign to be placed in my yard. It was for the initial run of Republican Jerry Weller for the House. He was elected. I met him once, briefly.
Years later, he married a wealthy Guatemalan woman. Weller has subsequently been accused of failing to report a number of large Guatemalan land transactions, while he was still a member of the House. Also, as it turns out, his wife is the daughter of the now convicted Guatemalan dictator.
Somehow, I feel tainted by that connection.
Bob