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Security & Strategic Review - January 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)
GUATEMALA: Pérez Molina launches new anticrime strategy
President Otto Pérez Molina’s investiture was preceded by the boast, by the outgoing government of Alvaro Colom (2008-2012), that it had managed to reduce violent crime. Since taking office on 14 January, Pérez Molina has begun implementing a new strategy based on the deployment of inter-agency task forces, backed up by civilian and military intelligence. He has also revealed unexpected openness to the notion of decriminalising drugs.
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