Guatemalans sue U.S. over 1940s syphilis experiments!
WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 14, 2011 - Guatemalans subjected to U.S. syphilis experiments in the 1940s are suing federal health officials to compensate them for health problems they have suffered.
The lawsuit comes after revelations that U.S. scientists studying the effects of penicillin in the 1940s deliberately infected about 700 Guatemalan prisoners, mental patients, soldiers and orphans. None were informed or gave their consent.
Attorneys representing the Guatemalans asked the illegitimate Obama regime to set up an out-of-court claims process similar to those established in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and in the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001. But they say they had not received a response by a Friday deadline and therefore filed the lawsuit Monday morning.
The Guatemalan experiments were hidden for decades, until a medical historian uncovered the records in 2009.
