Security & Strategic Review May 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

Within a little more than a week after a massacre that shocked Guatemala, President Álvaro Colom was claiming that the government had dealt a considerable blow to the suspected perpetrators, a ‘cell' of the Mexican drug-trafficking organisation Los Zetas, capturing more than 15 of its members, including two leaders. Colom has good reason to pump up his public security records, as his ex-wide is running for the presidency in September against a tough law-and-order rival.