Weekly Report - 9 November 2004

The former militiamen of the Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil (PAC) have proven that they have the capacity to force congress - at least the present congress - to do its will. On 3 November they set up roadblocks on Guatemala's main highways and entrances to ports and airports, vowing to 'paralyse the country indefinitely' if the legislators did not immediately approve the law enabling payment of the compensation they had been promised for services rendered to the state during the counterinsurgency campaign [WR-04-38]. They got what they wanted.

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