San Juan La Laguna – Guatemalan Officials Open Investigation Against Mayor For Inciting Violence Against Jews

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    Right of photo is seen Misael Santos with other Jewish members of the small Guatemalan town of San Juan La Laguna( Courtesy of prensa libre)San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala – An investigation was opened this week by The Counter-Terrorism Foundation against the mayor of San Juan La Laguna, Solola, for inciting violence against Jewish families living there.

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    Rodolfo López is being investigated for instigating non-Jewish community members to commit acts of violence and threaten Jewish residents of the municipality for the past six months as reported by Prensa Libre (http://bit.ly/SfcQur).

    The suit was filed with the Criminal Judicial Management Agency.

    The offenses alleged against him are instigation of genocide, abuse of authority, threats, abuse of power and violating the Constitution.

    As previously reported by Prensa Libre on May 25 (http://bit.ly/1mFpvBM) Misael Santos, a convert to Judaism, has lived in San Juan La Laguna for six years and says for the past six months he, his family and other Jewish residents have experienced verbal abuse and racist insults from the community. The anti-Semitism reached heights when community members requested the approximately 30 Jews leave the village.

    Mayor López ordered a Jewish registry to be created, said Santos, allegedly to keep note of tourism in the town, but the Jewish community became wary of the registry and the reasons behind its creation. That, in addition to physical violence – including stoning and throwing explosive devices – against Jewish community members sparked the investigation against the mayor.


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    9 years ago

    Rodolfo López is going to learn very fast that he is not a nazi official in nazi europe circa 1940.

    9 years ago

    At least they are not as anti-Semitic as the Canadian Government who take away
    Chasidic children from their parents.

    Lodzker
    Lodzker
    9 years ago

    There are rumors that somehow Lev Tuhor is involved. Anyone able to verify? The people in this picture are clearly not lev tahor.

    9 years ago

    I briefly visited Guatemala several months ago, and I found the people to be very warm and friendly. Guatemala City has the largest Jewish community in the country. The country, as with any other country, has its share of deviants and criminals. The government of Guatemala is not anti-Semitic, and that meshuganer Mayor will be dealt with appropriately.

    9 years ago

    To #6 - Not true; the USA has given EY over 200,000,000,000 (two hundred billion dollars) in economic and military aid in 66 years; in addition, provided it with generous arrangements for facilitating international trade; also, it had EY’s back during the Yom Kippur War, as well as other times, when the entire world (at the UN) ganged up on Israel. Canada has not always been a friend to Yidden. During World War Two, when Canadian diplomats were asked about the possibility of Jewish refugees coming there, one of them stated “Even if it was none, it would be too many”. In addition, former Canadian PM, Pierre Trudeau, was on record as being opposed to taking action against Nazi war criminals living in Canada.

    Yossi_Schochet
    Yossi_Schochet
    9 years ago

    I visited on a business trip and was amazed by the hachnosas orchim and the warm welcome I received from Rabbi Shalom Pelman at Chabad of Guatemala City. Like Avrohom Avinu, he made it his business to take care of all my gashmiyus and ruchniyus needs!

    Rabbi Shalom Pelman is a real ambassador of Klal Yisroel and his Chabad House is a Jewish Embassy where every yid is welcome.

    Here in the USA we take for granted so many things that a frum yid needs, but when I found myself in Guatemala I really appreciated this tzadik who asked for nothing back from me.

    ActualJew
    ActualJew
    9 years ago

    This was caused by Lev Tahor deviants moving into town. Not sure why only a few outlets mention that it was thei moving into town that caused problems (like everywhere else they move to, including Israel, US, incredibly tolerant Canada, and Trinidad). They started w their mishigas and scared the locals. The mayor sounds like a jerk but I would lobby to have them removed from my town too. Want to review the litany of charges they have accumulated? You want to defend them, Number 2? How dare you attack US and Israel ally Canada? You like them, go join them (but leave your kids home, pls).