Harris Whitbeck Sr. Explained
Harris Whitbeck Pinol (1933 – December 4, 2019)[1] [2] was an upper-class Guatemalan businessman. Whitbeck was a presidential candidate for Guatemala's Partido Patriota or Patriotic Party (PP) during national elections held in 2003. Whitbeck had previously been in the Frente Republicano Guatemalteco or Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG), the political party founded in 1989 by the former Guatemalan strongman and president, former Brigadier General Efraín Ríos Montt, a Christian evangelist who seized power in a coup toppling then dictator General Romeo Lucas García in 1982. Montt's regime was favored by Ronald Reagan's administration as a staunch U.S. ally and anti-communist bulwark during the turbulent 1980's when civil wars plagued Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Prior to breaking away from the FRG, Harris Whitbeck had been one of Rios Montt's closest advisers.
He died on 4 December 2019 at age 86.
Personal life
He is the father of Harris Whitbeck, a notable journalist.
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20071010112042/http://www.denjustpeace.org/Featured%20Articles/GuatemalaElectionsandImpunity.html
- https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DF133CF932A25753C1A966958260
- https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEEDD1339F93AA35753C1A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
- http://gsn.civiblog.org/blog/Video/offset=35
- http://www.preventgenocide.org/americas/guatemala/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20071007074132/http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/ACF18E5.pdf
- http://www.jackhicks.com/e107_files/downloads/Indigenousthesesanddissertations.pdf
- http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/1798
- http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/2146
- http://www.giga-hamburg.de/dl/download.php?d=/content/publikationen/pdf/wp19_oettler.pdf
- http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cases/21-94-GUATEMALA.htm
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060922040733/http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=3261
- http://farmertofarmer.org/Winter04newsletter.pdf
- http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/commission/country52/15-gtm.htm
- https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFD91739F932A15753C1A966958260
Notes and References
- Web site: Fallece empresario y expolítico Harris Whitbeck Piñol. 2019-12-05. Canal Antigua. es. 2019-12-06.
- Web site: Fallece padre del periodista Harris Whitbeck. emisorasunidas.com. 5 December 2019. 2019-12-06.