Posted on 05/15/2009 7:49:11 PM PDT by newbie2008
Several have sent word that a YouTube video of recently assassinated lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg has sent Guatemala into a tailspin. The video of Rosenberg claims that if you are watching, he has been murdered by President Alvaro Colom with help from presidential secretary Gustavo Alejos. "The video spread across the Internet after family members handed it out during Rosenberg's funeral on Monday. In the 18-minute tape, a seemingly calm Rosenberg, sitting behind a desk and microphone, alleges that Colom, the First Lady and two associates were involved in murder, corruption and money laundering. The group, he says, filtered public funds through a state-owned bank for personal gain and to finance drug traffickers. Rosenberg then claims that after Khalil Musa, a prominent businessman and bank board member, had learned of the Coloms' scheme, Musa and his daughter were shot to death in front of a shopping center in April. Rosenberg says the President signed off on the killings."
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxZptUp9a44
“Asesinato Rodrigo Rosenberg 1 (English Subs)”
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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdzfPoKf_hA
“Asesinato Rodrigo Rosenberg 2”
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1898360,00.html
“A Video from the Grave Sends Guatemala into Crisis”
By EZRA FIESER / GUATEMALA CITY
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Transcript of the written document left behind by the lawyer [Rodrigo Rosenberg] before being shot to death:
Rodrigo Rosenbergs Declaration, prior to his death
If you are reading this message, it means that I, Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, was murdered by the Presidents Private Secretary Gustavo Alejos and his associate Gregorio Valdez, with the approval of mister Alvaro Colom and Sandra de Colom.
The reason, for which Gustavo Alejos and Gregorio Valdez, have ordered my death, and for which the President of the Republic Alvaro Colom has approved it, is because until the day I was killed, I was the lawyer for two incredible Guatemalans, Mister Khalil Musa and his daughter Marjorie Musa, and knew exactly how Alvaro Colom, Sandra de Colom, Gustavo Alejos and Gregorio Valdez were responsible for this cowardly assassination, which I made known to them and to anyone who could and would hear me.
I was a 47 year old Guatemalan, with 4 beautiful children, with the best brother one could ask of life, with wonderful friends, and with an overwhelming desire to live in my country, but I could not have lived with myself without rebelling, arming myself with valor and denouncing the real reasons for the deaths of Mister Khalil Musa and his daughter Marjorie Musa before all the Guatemalans who have principles and values, without regarding the consequences, and understanding that my life was in danger, I wanted to leave behind this testimony, should something come to happen to me, as it unfortunately did.
It was Alvaro Colom who, through Gustavo Alejos and Gregorio Valdez, asked for the collaboration of Mister Khalil Musa to form part, Ad honorem, of the board for Banrural, without Mister Khalil Musa being aware of the illegal, millionaire business transactions taking place daily in Banrural, which range from money laundering to the deviation of public funds to non-existent programs belonging to the Presidents wife, Sandra de Colom, as well as the funding of paper firms employed for drug-dealing.
It was Alvaro Colom, in agreement with Gustavo Alejos and Gregorio Valdez, who withheld Mister Khalil Musas already signed appointment, without his knowledge, for over three months, for in reality they had no intention whatsoever of granting him this post, but were using his good name with the argument that if new quotas of power were not distributed, Mister Khalil would denounce the corruption with which Banrurals General Manager Fernando Peña operates this bank at his whim, for the service of Mrs. Sandra de Colom, as an associate and financier with the funds of the bank and of the businesses owned by Gregorio Valdez and Gustavo Alejos, without the banks president, José Angel López, doing anything to stop Fernando Peña from turning Banrural into the dwelling for thieves, drugdealers and murderers which it is now.
With the impunity with which Guatemalans in recent years have granted to thieves and murderers, José Angel López, Fernando Peña and the cowardly Gerardo de León directly threatened and intimidated Mister Khalil Musa, a few weeks before his assassination, so that hed give up his post and Mister Khalil Musa, as a true gentleman, told them he had no problem with his appointment being cancelled, as it was Gustavo Alejos and Gregorio Valdez, in agreement with our most splendid President Alvaro Colom and his perennial shadow, Sandra de Colom.
Mister Khalil Musa lets Gustavo Alejos and Alvaro Colom know that hes decided not to take part in the board of Banrural to avoid troubles, but they ask that he give them time, as all was getting resolved, without Mister Khalil Musa having the slightest idea that once the thieves and murderers had everything settled, they would murder him along with his daughter, Marjorie Musa, (whose only crime was to be an exemplary daughter who always accompanied her father), as hed served his purpose, without caring for anything or anyone and with the utter leisure of knowing that good Guatemalans would once more do absolutely nothing, justifying their inactivity in the impotence which always pervades us, or simply saying Most likely, they were involved in something
Boasting lack of moral principles or values, and of the vaguest sense of shame, Gustavo Alejos, personally, after trying to invent other theories who nobody accepted on the grounds of the moral virtue of the victims, told Mister Khalil Musas family that hed regrettably been assassinated for the horrible problems which exist in Banrural, reaching the point that the very President Alvaro Colom invites one of Mister Khalil Musas political relatives to his office to confirm whats been said by his Private Secretary.
Now you can understand why neither Alvaro Colom and much less Gustavo Alejos publicly declared what they told to the family of Mister Khalil Musa and his daughter Marjorie Musa, and ordered the corrupt and incompetent Secretary of the Interior and the nonexistent Attorney General to let this assassination slide, as always occurs with the murders, thefts and violations which have thrust Guatemala into its darkest depths.
Day by day this horrible story repeats itself and fills with grief one more of our Guatemalan families, while the good Guatemalans decide to look the other way and pray its not our turn.
Its enough! Lets rescue our country from thieves, murderers and drugdealers, and once united, let us reclaim our Guatemala, our values and our faith in justice, and let us kick out the current puppet we have for president, and let us imprison the thieves and murderers, starting with Gustavo Alejos, Gregorio Valdez, Fernando Peña and Gerardo de León, among others, and once and for all, let us demand the resignation of all the current members of Congress, all of who, with very few exceptions, are a bunch of thieves, and let us start all over again, for the love of God and our country.
Surely the cowards will try to defend themselves by staining the memory of Mister Khalil Musa or his daughter Marjorie Musa, and will try to convince Guatemalans that this is all a new ploy, but in the end, the one and only truth that matters is that if you are reading this message, its because I, Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, was murdered by Gustavo Alejos and Gregorio Valdez, with the approval of Mister Alvaro colom and Sandra de Colom, for refusing to allow the vile and cowardly assassination of two incredible people like Mister Khalil Musa and his daughter Marjorie Musa to become another statistic, thus continuing to hand over my country to the killers, cowards, thieves and drugdealers who currently govern it.
Rodrigo Rosenber Marzano
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I remind Mister Vicepresident of the Republic, Doctor Rafael Espada, that he whos silent, yields, and that you are neither a thief nor a murderer, and should be the first one to head the movement to recover our Guatemala, and make the law be carried out with the help of all the good Guatemalans who support it without reserve.
What do people expect to happen?
How long before the mysterious deaths in the US do the same?
Sounds like a job for Drudge & Glenn Beck.
Wow.
This is of significant concern to me - I have missionary friends in Guatemala, and have made trips down there as well (also mission work). I hope to return sometime soon. I pray that this problem will be dealt with with real justice - not knee-jerk reaction (unfortunately, that is the normal way the people of Guatemala tend to deal with things- rapid and violent actions with or without any evidence.) IN this case, there is a lot of reason to be suspicious of the president and his people...
man, oh man...
Coming to America soon, first the internal purges. Obama will clean house on his own side before he comes after us. Pelosi is first then Reid. Once he has consolidated and centralized power he will come after us. He is going after Pelosi not because she is not on his side, it’s just that she thinks she is a co equal. To a Stalinist that is simply impossible. Our best strategy is to let Pelosi in place and let her wreak havoc on their side. She now knows she is in the headlights. There is nothing more dangerous than a woman who has figured out she is road kill and survives.
Obama will come to this guy’s defense. They love leftist regimes down there. Besides he needs a place to escape to if they ever find his real birth certificate.
That’s a chilling yet utterly plausible concept.
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