Guatemalans sue US for syphilis test

Although a lawsuit has already been filed against the US, now attention is being turned towards the Guatemalan state. The experiments that were carried out on prison inmates, women and mental patients.Federico Ramos, from the small rural town of Acasaguastlan, was a young man in the army when he was one of around 700 Guatemalans unwittingly injected with a disease so the US could test the then-new drug penicillin.“The injections were put into us in there, and one did not know what they were injecting into you. I had purgation [gonorrhea],” said Ramos. Ramos is now 86 and wants justice to be done. So does Manuel Gudiel, who is one year Ramoss junior and says he was infected after having sex with a prostitute who had received a US injection.“No one told the person what injection they were giving, only the doctor knew what was injected and the disease the person had. He knew and gave the person the injection,” explained Gudiel.In March, a group of Guatemalans filed a class action lawsuit against the US government for intentionally infecting them with syphilis.