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Security & Strategic Review January 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)
GUATEMALA: Bombing highlights enduring gang threat
The bombing of a bus in Guatemala City that killed nine people and
injured at least a dozen has focussed attention on the size of the extortion
racket run by the major maras (street gangs) and the government's perceived
failure to curb it despite having deployed troops alongside the police in the
capital.
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