YouTube Video Sends Guatemala Into Crisis

Several have sent word that a YouTube video of recently assassinated lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg has sent Guatemala into a tailspin. The video of Rosenberg claims that if you are watching, he has been murdered by President Alvaro Colom with help from presidential secretary Gustavo Alejos. "The video spread across the Internet after family members handed it out during Rosenberg's funeral on Monday. In the 18-minute tape, a seemingly calm Rosenberg, sitting behind a desk and microphone, alleges that Colom, the First Lady and two associates were involved in murder, corruption and money laundering. The group, he says, filtered public funds through a state-owned bank for personal gain and to finance drug traffickers. Rosenberg then claims that after Khalil Musa, a prominent businessman and bank board member, had learned of the Coloms' scheme, Musa and his daughter were shot to death in front of a shopping center in April. Rosenberg says the President signed off on the killings."

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The medium is NOT the message

[14erCleaner]

Does the fact that YouTube was involved make this a computer story somehow? Wouldn't the word have gotten out just the same if it had been televised instead?

And yet...

[dave562]

YouTube is full of videos that show how the American government is owned by central bankers, how our elected leaders are just puppets of monied interests, and how our votes really don't matter... yet there isn't a revolution taking place in this country. I guess YouTube isn't the political pancea that it's hyped to be.

Ok if this makes it out, where are the US pics?

[yoma666]

Maybe we should all ask ourselves why and more importantly HOW they managed to keep those "inside".

Here is a transcript!

[Anonymous Coward]

Aide: Please to repeat again and I will translating for the el
                        presidente.
            Bart: [slowly] Which way does the water turn in your toilet?
            Aide: [in Spanish] He says the tide is turning!
Presidente: Ay, caramba! Then the rebels will soon take the capital. I
                        must flee! [dives out window]

Re:because the existence of the pictures

[mangu]

those who seek to view them are what drives their creation. you do admit that obvious observation, right?

No, I don't.

First of all, let's get a [citation needed] here, what's this thing you call "child pornography"? I have had internet connection for over fifteen years now. I have seen thousands upon thousands of pornographic pictures in the internet, but I still have to see one single photograph of a child engaged in sex. Have *you* ever seen a picture of a child having sexual intercourse? Do you know of anyone that has ever seen such a picture?

Let's face it, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY DOES *NOT* EXIST!!!

So called "child pornography" is nothing but a lame excuse of people trying to assert their power upon others. All they want is to censor other people.

so much for conservatism

[Admiral Stardust]

I'm probably going to get flamed to hades for saying this, but so much for the conservatives that want the internet to be a "squeaky clean government educating machine." Yes, it's thrown the country into a tailspin, but look at the murders it could prevent. Now hopefully he won't be in office anymore and they can kick his backside. On the flip side of this, though, the tape could *possibly* have been rigged and/or faked. Has anyone verified its authenticity? I'm just curious. Thanks for listening.