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Guest Commentator

Myrna Santiago

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Myrna Santiago is professor of history at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her book, The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938, won two prizes. She is working on a history of the 1972 Managua earthquake and is looking for witnesses willing to tell their stories. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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Guest Commentary

It Is Human Rights

By Myrna Santiago Guest Commentator

An armed representative of the state who kills a civilian, therefore, commits not just a crime like any other person. No, that official commits an abuse of power, a violation of human rights.

American Secretaries of State echoed the denials — …” But ask the question: Who deserves execution at a children’s park? Who deserves execution at a traffic…

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