Syphilis and Other Atrocities

Ours is the universal history of infamy, as in the familiar stories of Borges. Now we just know that official U.S. health experienced between 1946 and 1948 with a thousand Guatemalans infected syphilis and gonorrhea who deliberately and secretly. Such a monstrosity has remained unpunished and has only been discovered as an indirect result of another investigation of a historian. It is, therefore, that the opponents of Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele immediately began to practice atrocities similar to yours.

And is that so-called civilizing no better than those considered uncivilized. If the Nazi crimes were horrible, a recent book by Giles MacDonogh tells the repression of the allies ignored for hundreds of thousands of innocent Germans after the fall of the Third Reich. Many were detained in the same concentration camps of the SS, more than 16 million were forced from their homes and the result of systematic violations 200,000 children were born.

There is, therefore, nothing to brag about. The same happened with the UN blue helmets, who looked the other way when the killing of a million Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda but, yes, were delivered with relish to rape and pillage, as they did in other places.

Another thrilling tale in this case the horrors of colonialism, is included in the latest novel on the former Belgian Congo's recent Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa: The Dream of Celta. For if the geography of the brutality and abjection knows no bounds, neither should have them or their complaint or their punishment.