Event
Obama's apology to Guatemala
Telephone call of 1 October 2010 from President Obama to President Colom, and the joint statement of two Cabinet secretaries.
- Dates
- 1 Oct 2010
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- Barack Obama telephoned President Colom to apologise Primary record 1
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Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
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The Commission reports that the President asked it to investigate on 24 November 2010.
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- 1 Oct 2010 Obama's apology to Guatemala
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"Ethically Impossible": STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Sep 2011.
Primary record
President Barack Obama telephoned President Álvaro Colom of Guatemala to extend an apology to the people of Guatemala for medical research supported by the United States and conducted in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948.
It began with the original records documenting the Guatemala activities found by Wellesley College professor Dr. Susan M. Reverby at the University of Pittsburgh in June 2003
to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research practices
President Obama expressed “deep regret” for the research
Dr. John C. Cutler, who directed the studies in Guatemala and later served as a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, donated the records to the university in 1990.
Dr. Reverby had presented her findings from these records at a May 2010 meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine.
On November 24, 2010, he charged the Commission, beginning in January 2011, to “oversee a thorough fact-finding investigation into the specifics” of the Guatemala research.
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