From the AP
A Guatemalan judge has again postponed a hearing to decide if a former general should stand trial for alleged involvement in dozens of massacres of indigenous people during the Central American nation's civil war.
Prosecutors say the 81-year-old Hector Mario Lopez Fuentes was brought to Friday's hearing sedated, prompting Judge Carol Flores to cancel it.
Flores hasn't set a new date for the hearing. She canceled three previous hearings after Lopez's lawyers said he was too sick with prostate cancer to attend.
Lopez was detained in June on charges that he planned and ordered about 300 massacres when he was chief of staff of the Guatemalan military in 1982 and 1983.
I wonder if his lawyer's strategy is just to delay a hearing until the November runoff. Assuming Otto Perez Molina wins, it'll then be interesting to see what happens when the courts try to prosecute military officials for genocide and crimes against humanity when the president denies either of those things ever happened.
NISGUA has more on former Director of Military Intelligence José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez who was arrested Thursday.
Here are a few more stories to take a look at this weekend.
Rains blamed for 22 deaths (Fox News Latino)
Women like the all women buses (The Guardian) Are all women taxis next?
Little headway against rampant malnutrition (IPS)
Guatemalan businessmen look to reduce poverty from 51% to 35% by 2021 (El Periodico) 51% looks low but it sounds like an ambitious, but reasonable goal
An analysis on the economic benefits and risks of the Marlin Mine from Lyuba Zarsky and Leonardo Stanley22 days and 10 hours remaining until round 2 voting begins.
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