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Weekly Report - 19 May 2011 (WR-11-20)
GUATEMALA: Colom struggles with past and future security threats
Two critical events in recent days have laid bare the extent of the
security challenge facing Guatemala. The acquittal last week by a Guatemala City
court of former President Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004), accused of corruption
and linked to the Cofradía, an organised criminal enterprise comprising
former senior military officers, is one of the biggest setbacks to the UN-backed
International Commission against Impunity (Cicig) since it began its mandate of
investigating the infiltration of state institutions by criminal organisations
in 2007. Days later, an attack by presumed members of the Mexican drug gang Los
Zetas on a Guatemalan ranch, in which 27 labourers were killed, 25 of them
beheaded, was the most brutal reminder to date of the threat posed by the
growing presence of Mexican gangs and the changing nature of the security
challenges facing the country.
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- MEXICO: The economic consequences of the violence
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- TRACKING TRENDS
- HAITI : How sweet will Micky be?
- GUATEMALA: Colom struggles with past and future security threats
- TRACKING TRENDS
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