InSight Crime has two pieces on Guatemala Political Party Branded 'Narco' by US: WikiLeaks and Guatemala Anti-Drug Operations Force Refugees into Mexico. Colom insists that the people were evicted peacefully under a judge’s orders.
Keith Slack has Guatemala’s presidential election: A golden opportunity to end mining conflict at Oxfam.
Danilo Valladares discusses some of the positives and negatives of the Colom government’s social programs in All Candidates Jump on the Social Programmes Bandwagon. As the title suggests, all presidential candidates have committed themselves to continuing the programs in some form if elected. What’s not clear is which candidates support the continuation of these programs because they believe that they are important and are working and which candidates support the continuation of the programs because they are popular and might help them at the ballot box. In some ways it doesn’t matter, the programs will continue. On the other hand, the programs might not be a priority for some administrations.
The departments of Chiquimula, Alta Verapaz and Escuintla Launch Anti-Weapon Drive whereby “warlike toys will be collected, destroyed and exchanged for educational ones.”
And in Canada, Accused Guatemalan war criminal [Jorge Vinicio Orantes Sosa] fights extradition to US. Sosa was allegedly involved in the Dos Erres massacre. Should he be deported to the US, he could face up to 15 years in prison for committing a variety of immigration offenses.
Álvaro Arzú (Unionist Party) still leads in the Guatemala City mayoral race, but his competitors Alejando Sinibaldi (Patriotic Party) and Roberto González Díaz-Durán (CREO) are not far behind.
Finally, Guatemalans and foreigners are worried about the uptick in crime and insecurity in Antigua.
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