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Security & Strategic Review - June 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)
GUATEMALA: Crime figures are down in Guatemala
President Otto Pérez Molina has been claiming credit for having brought down the rates of high-impact crime — homicide, kidnapping, car theft — in the 17 months he has been in office. The rights advocacy organisation Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM) concedes that there has been a decline, but that the rates remain high when compared with three of Guatemala’s four last governments, the exception being that of Álvaro Colom, Pérez Molina’s immediate predecessor (2008-2012). Both the President and the GAM have been cherry-picking their statistical indicators to make their points.
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