Guatemalans against US Torture
Guatemalan thinkers called the US Wednesday the biggest human rights violator worldwide and demanded the closure of its torture and detention centers around the globe.

Marcos Sagastume, professor at San Carlos de Guatemala University, joined the call by international thinkers and asserted the White House lacks moral authority to report on other nations´ citizen prerogatives.

Sagastume, also a migration advisor, called offensive and shameful the wall Washington wants to build along its border with Mexico to impede undocumented people from entering its territory and criminalize them.

Likewise, legal expert Alfonso Bauer, another Guatemalan academic, condemned rights violations on the US black and mixed race population while reminding that most of those sentenced to death penalty belong to those minorities.

Bauer pleaded for closing of the US prison in illegal Guantanamo naval base and the detention centers in Europe and other nations.

The well-known expert was one of the first to back the international call, signed by 4,000 global intellectuals to date, against the war in Iraq and human rights violations by the US.