Sadistic U.S. Tuskegee Experiment in Guatemala
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The details got out that U.S. authorities doctors exposed hundreds of the Guatemalan prisoners and mental patients to syphilis in 1946-1948. The Medical historian Dr.Susan Reverby uncovered this barbaric crime in the credentials of Dr.John C Cutler while researching her book, Examining Tuskegee experiment. Dr.Cutler was the head of the Guatemala experiment which was co-sponsored by the humanist regime of Guatema President Juan Arvalo. Afterward,Dr. Cutler joined the infamous “Tuskegee experiment” of 1932-72.
During that period,The U.S. government has denied life-saving penicillin to hundreds of african american in Alabama with syphilis. The reason of this study was to watch the ravages of the diseases as it smashed the men’s bodies and minds. Within Guatemala,Dr.Cutler and his assistants introduced infected prostitutes into the prisons to have sex with healthy males. Uninfected prostitutes had the bacterias inserted into their vaginas before sex. By the mental hospital,Dr.Cutler injected the disease straight into the patients’ spines or made them drink solutions containing syphilitic sores of other men or animal tissue. One more method was to scrape a man’s penis by a needle and drip the bacterial solution against the wound for up to two hrs at a time.
Dr.Cutler’s victims, who had been derided as “rabbits,” did not know what they were being infected with, and no one knows how lots of died as a result. The 700 citizens infected supposedly received treatment. Other than one physician from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about one-third does not receive enough penicillin to cure them Dr.Cutler’s papers documented some resistance since his victims. One man ran away but was found two hours later. Others opposed the constant drawing of blood. A researcher lamented in his notes, “Unfortunately our female donor is leaving her profession for wedding and is no longer available.”
These brutal torments recall Dr.Josef Mengele and the Nazi experiments on Jews, Gypsies and some held into concentration camps. The Guatemala experiment took place while the U.S. and other Allies were trying fascist war criminals at Nuremberg in 1945-49. The U.S. smuggled to safety many Nazi military officers, concentration camp doctors and prison guards. The U.S. saved Mengele, while Dr. Hubertus Strughold, associated with the experiments at Dachau, was brought to the U.S. to strengthen its military research apparatus. As U.S. imperialism geared up its anti-Soviet Cold War drive, America’s rulers knew they couldn’t let all that Nazi “talent” go to waste.
The U.S. carried out Nazi-like experiments on poor, working-class and black people. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were sent into irradiated blast sites after atomic bombs were set off. As Washington DC.actively pursued plans for a nuclear “first strike” against the USSR, America’s rulers wanted to know how much radiation their troops could stand in order to train them to subdue survivors of an atomic attack. Poor pregnant women seeking medical care were fed highly radioactive iron, while Harvard and MIT scientists fed breakfast cereal laced with radioactive doses equivalent to 50 chest X-rays to more than 120 mentally retarded teenagers, telling their parents the children were receiving an improved diet.
Such crimes are not a thing of the past. To the capitalist rulers, minorities and the colonial and semicolonial slaves of imperialism are “inferior” and “expendable.” In Africa in the late 1990s, the U.S. and the UN funded 15 studies on mother-to-infant HIV transmission that used a placebo instead of AZT-even as AZT was known to effectively block this type of HIV transmission. Some 1,500 infants were expected to die. Such experiments continue to this day. As Harriet A. Washington, the author of Medical Apartheid, noted in a 2007 Democracy Now! interview, “Africa is being treated as a laboratory for the West by Western researchers.”
The White House was quick to offer its cynical apologies for the Guatemala case study-which was carried out under the Democratic Truman administration-expressing “deep regret” about the “reprehensible research.”
During that period,The U.S. government has denied life-saving penicillin to hundreds of african american in Alabama with syphilis. The reason of this study was to watch the ravages of the diseases as it smashed the men’s bodies and minds. Within Guatemala,Dr.Cutler and his assistants introduced infected prostitutes into the prisons to have sex with healthy males. Uninfected prostitutes had the bacterias inserted into their vaginas before sex. By the mental hospital,Dr.Cutler injected the disease straight into the patients’ spines or made them drink solutions containing syphilitic sores of other men or animal tissue. One more method was to scrape a man’s penis by a needle and drip the bacterial solution against the wound for up to two hrs at a time.
Dr.Cutler’s victims, who had been derided as “rabbits,” did not know what they were being infected with, and no one knows how lots of died as a result. The 700 citizens infected supposedly received treatment. Other than one physician from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about one-third does not receive enough penicillin to cure them Dr.Cutler’s papers documented some resistance since his victims. One man ran away but was found two hours later. Others opposed the constant drawing of blood. A researcher lamented in his notes, “Unfortunately our female donor is leaving her profession for wedding and is no longer available.”
These brutal torments recall Dr.Josef Mengele and the Nazi experiments on Jews, Gypsies and some held into concentration camps. The Guatemala experiment took place while the U.S. and other Allies were trying fascist war criminals at Nuremberg in 1945-49. The U.S. smuggled to safety many Nazi military officers, concentration camp doctors and prison guards. The U.S. saved Mengele, while Dr. Hubertus Strughold, associated with the experiments at Dachau, was brought to the U.S. to strengthen its military research apparatus. As U.S. imperialism geared up its anti-Soviet Cold War drive, America’s rulers knew they couldn’t let all that Nazi “talent” go to waste.
The U.S. carried out Nazi-like experiments on poor, working-class and black people. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were sent into irradiated blast sites after atomic bombs were set off. As Washington DC.actively pursued plans for a nuclear “first strike” against the USSR, America’s rulers wanted to know how much radiation their troops could stand in order to train them to subdue survivors of an atomic attack. Poor pregnant women seeking medical care were fed highly radioactive iron, while Harvard and MIT scientists fed breakfast cereal laced with radioactive doses equivalent to 50 chest X-rays to more than 120 mentally retarded teenagers, telling their parents the children were receiving an improved diet.
Such crimes are not a thing of the past. To the capitalist rulers, minorities and the colonial and semicolonial slaves of imperialism are “inferior” and “expendable.” In Africa in the late 1990s, the U.S. and the UN funded 15 studies on mother-to-infant HIV transmission that used a placebo instead of AZT-even as AZT was known to effectively block this type of HIV transmission. Some 1,500 infants were expected to die. Such experiments continue to this day. As Harriet A. Washington, the author of Medical Apartheid, noted in a 2007 Democracy Now! interview, “Africa is being treated as a laboratory for the West by Western researchers.”
The White House was quick to offer its cynical apologies for the Guatemala case study-which was carried out under the Democratic Truman administration-expressing “deep regret” about the “reprehensible research.”
This is but a sneer at the countless numbers of Afghani and Iraqi, other prisoners that the U.S. has rounded up and subjected to waterboarding and other forms of torture. The U.S. employs doctors to watch over its inquisitors in order to “refine” their techniques of torture and to make sure that their victims live to see another day of torment.
6 years after the Guatemala experiment ended, the U.S.Goverment accepted out a bloody coup there and for the next several decades installed one brutal dictatorship after another. Between 1960 and 96, more than 200,000 Mayan villagers, trade unionists and leftist insurgents were slaughtered, as the U.S. intended for the transformation of a monstrous but inefficient military gang into an organized machine of systematic mass murder. As part of its war on Communism, the U.S. armed and trained murderers and torturers throughout Central America. To this day, the infamous School of the Americas (now renamed WHINSEC) in Fort Benning, Georgia, trains U.S. imperialism’s Latin America henchmen to torture and butcher unionists, leftists and peasants.
None of this is an aberration. Such atrocities are inherent to the capitalist structure of production. Even under the “ordinary” every day workings of imperialism, billions of human beings across the earth must suffer starvation and thirst. They must die excruciating deaths from curable diseases.
They must endure cruelty, humiliation terror or even death at the hands of police and the military. They must feel their bodies break down from work that barely pays enough to prolong their lives another year while the profits from their labor fill the capitalist rulers’ multibillion-dollar bank accounts.
It will take the working class seizing power through socialist revolution-above all in the belly of the U.S. imperialist beast-to put an end to this barbaric capitalist system.
As Marxist leader Rosa Luxemburg underlined during the carnage of the First World War, the choice facing humanity is: socialism or barbarism.
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