Dr. Raul Molina, member of the Board of Directors of the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA and former Coordinator of the National University of Guatemala's Truth Commission (which exposed decades of human rights abuses committed by the Guatemala
Recorded at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim, September 3, 2004.
Dr. Raul Molina, member of the Board of Directors of the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA and former Coordinator of the National University of Guatemala's Truth Commission (which exposed decades of human rights abuses committed by the Guatemalan military, private militias, and death squads), talks about the current political situation.
From his own personal experience as a human rights activist, Dr. Molina gives us a thorough and in depth look at Guatemalan politics; talks about the influence the United States plays in its internal affairs; and address some of the issues faced by Guatemalans who migrated here to escape political repression.
Dr. Molina notes that recent positive changes in the government and efforts to implement the 1996 Peace Accords ending civil strife are a source of hope for the Guatemalan people; but warns that serious social and economic problems and pervasive violence and insecurity still threaten to tear that nation apart
Active in Guatemalan politics, Dr. Molina was a founding member of Representación Unitaria de la Oposición Guatemalteca (RUOG) in 1982, a political and diplomatic team that presented the case of Guatemalan human rights atrocities to all important international fora, particularly the UN General Assembly Commission on Human Rights.
In addition to this, he was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs for the Frente Democrático Nueva Guatemala (FDNG), a left-wing political party, between the years of 1996-99, and was a candidate for Mayor of Guatemala City in for Acción Metropolitana (AM) in November 1999.
Dr. Molina is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of Latin American History and World History at Long Island University and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Sciences at New York University.
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