1983_02 The Daily Collegian February 1983

              2    February 1,1983
Fresno couple recounts Guatemalan horrors
CSUF graduate psychology student JuBo
Gramajo and his wife, Margaret, returned
to Fresno from Guatemala in November
unable to answer the question of what
hurt more, the death of his father, or the
conditions of the Guatemalan people that
they witnessed in the month they spent
We went down there because my
father was very, very ill," Julio, a native
Guatamelan, said. "He finally died on
Nov. 8. I asked myself, what was more
painful to me, the death of my father or
the killings that are going on in Guate¬
mala?" he asked.
"In Guatemala alone thay killed 85,000
people since 1964, Gramajo said. "I'm not
talking about robberies or homicides, I
mean for political reasons."
He l»ft Guatemala nearly twenty years
ago because "even though I was a profes¬
sional, I was starving to death," he said.
He married Margaret, a native Califor-
man, and the couple now lives in Fresno
BLOOM COUNTY
They were recently joined by Julio's
mother and sister from Guatemala, who
speak no English.
Gramajo spoke of the involvement and
interests of American corporations in
Guatamala and of the families that control
the country.
"The country is in the hands of 12 fami¬
lies," he said, "These American corpora¬
tions support these families because they
allow these corporations to go and rape
the land and exploit the people."
'...They don't have
anything to eat'
Gramajo said the American owned
banana and coffee plantations have re¬
placed crops o( rice, corn and beans that
the people once depended on for survival.
"The Indians are revolting against the
fact that they don't have anything to eat,"
said Margaret.
He said that the 12 ruling families sup¬
port Ruiz Montt, who founded his, own
church in Guatemala. Montt claims to
speak with the Lord and says that the
Lord tells him where the government
subversives live, Gramajo said.
Every Sunday night at 9 p.m., Montt
takes to the air waves of every radio and
preaches his personal gospel and
urges the people to turn in any neighbor,
friend or family member that they suspect
of being subversives to his government,
Gramajo said.
The Gramajos told stories of "sus¬
pected subersives" who were shot on the
streets, in their homes or dragged out of
university classrooms, never to be heard
from again. ^
"For the most part you will find about
four soldiers with machine guns on every
corner to scare the shit out of you," Julio
said. "Every now and then you'll see war
tanks just going up and down the streets
to scare the people again."
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Fischer
Continued from pig* 1
liberation and cut* in domestic spending
it's all the same fight," he said. "We all
rave to do with American militarism and
rhe American foreign policy-"
The Contra Costa Coalition against
U.S. intervention in El Salvador also par¬
ticipated Saturday, supported by dozens
of peace, religious, union and political
voted to 30 Bmp. To persuade them to
move along, law offidsds used what
Fischer described as "« very painful nose-
lock." ..->
Fischer said that one man's nose was
broken. "After we saw that, we decided
not to go limp," he said. There was no
need for that type of brutafity."
When his group left peacefully, they
were handcuffed and walked to a police
.Gandhi's spirit," he sad
Fischer said that during the 30 hours he
and the other demonstrators were kept in
jail, the attitudes of the law officers
"Every deputy-sheriff got a quick his¬
tory on Q Salvador," he said. "At first,
they were hard, coJd, professional and
distant. Ely the end of the 30 hours, when
they knew they'd be letting us go, we
'Every deputy sheriff got a quick history on
El Salvador'
The group assembled at
10a.m.Satur-
day for civil disobedie
Fischer said. A car carava
n began at 11
j m. and a rally started at
noon in Clyde
Pcirk, 100 yards from the n
lain gate. At 1
fi m., the blockade began.
They (law officials) wer
e all ready foi
us." said Fischer. They let
us get in posi-
tton and then they started
taking people
Each group made the
decision on
whether to stand, sit or go
imp when the
police came to take them a
group, called "Compas" -
- Spanish for
Iriend — at first decided to
go limp.
The first group the police
removed also
bus. Once inside, they were processed
and then loaded onto a larger bus.
, The arrested demonstrators didn't
forget their purpose, however.
; "We kept pointing out to ourselves
while we were in jail that for doing the
same thing in El Salvador, we'd be tor¬
tured to death, have our bodies mutQated
and thrown out in the street. By compari¬
son, we might have been in a country
club," he said.
Fischer said that the demonstrators
were arrested on the 35th anniversary of
Gandhi's death.      " .
could talk to the human being instead of
the police officer. We actually had a lot of
friendly conversations.
hear the caee at 1:30 pjn. o
According to Reeher, the di
have been charged with Mo. , „_„,
"In order to prove that, they must get
drivers to testify. The. police cars were
blocking traffic. The pofce made dnVers
turn around and go the other way," said
Fischer.
According to Fischer, the group wi go
to court with several demands.
Among their requests are:
— a mass court trial be held.
— people who used alias have that
charge dropped.
— the demonstrators aO be given the
same charge.
Fischer says that if their demands are
not met, they wiH threaten individual jury
trials, thereby flooding the court sche-
A peace group from San Francisco is
planning to organize a protest rally that
The Contra Costa County Court will    day outside the courthouse
TRJUabble over location
delays automatic teller
"We thought il
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ii ed no opposition thus far, and "every
ii-ment" of the college (faculty, staff and
fudertts) has been in full support.
"All along the reaction has been posi-
I think it's a good idea," said CSUF
rofessor R. Hennings. "The present
icilities are pretty crowded; with the new
ateStC CU, students will be offered
aquiring funds for the project.
John Sanchez, a senior accounting
major, said that despite the additional $10
he felt the new CU was "something that
students will definitely benefit from."
Whitfield said construction will begin in
March, and is expected to be complete
about 10 months later.
He said all major programs will be
moved over to the rtew building; this will
include movies, major lectures and Black
History Week.
Whitfield said a ground-breaking
J/ill occur in which everyone
invited, although a time and place
: yet been established.
The installation of
hour bank teller on campus has been
postponed until late March or early April,
pending agreement on the construction
site by the administration and Guarantee
The automatic teller, which will serve
students as part of Guarantee Savings'
MaxCard checking account, was sche¬
duled to have been installed in time for the
Spring semester. The disagreement over
the proposed library location of the teller,
however, led to the delay.
The problem will be rectified, according
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