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Caribbean & Central America - August 2017 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUATEMALA: Morales lifts state of siege
President Jimmy Morales announced this month that he was ending a state of emergency decreed in May in Ixchiguán and Tajumulco municipalities, San Marcos department. The decree had been declared in response to violence linked to both a decades-old land dispute and turf war in the area which is used to cultivate opium poppy [SSR-17-06]. While the conservative Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) government has unveiled various initiatives aimed at boosting productive development in the area, and drawn up a bill which sets out new boundaries, it remains to be seen how far this will ultimately go in ending the unrest.
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