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Weekly Report - 25 September 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
GUATEMALA: Colom appoints female police chief
President Alvaro Colom appointed Guatemala's first-ever female police
chief this week. Marlene Raquel Blanco Lapola, former director of the Policía
Nacional Civil (PNC) crime prevention unit, replaced Isabel Mendoza, who was
fired in a series of high level “restructurings" of the PNC. The move follows a
shake-up in the presidential security team, following the spying scandal
“Guategate" two weeks earlier [WR-08-36] as well as a flurry of changes in the
interior and defence ministries after the appointment of interior minister
Francisco Jiménez in July.
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