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Security & Strategic Review - August 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
GUATEMALA: Kidnapping rate is more than halved
The national police (PNC) has been celebrating its success in lowering the incidence of kidnappings. The number of reported cases, which had dipped from 98 in 2007 to 23 in 2008 (the first year of the four year Álvaro Colom administration) shot up to 198 the following year and remained above 120 in each of the following years. The Otto Pérez Molina administration succeeded in bringing it down steadily year by year, to 45 in 2014 and 17 in the first seven months of this year.
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