Weekly Report - 23 December 2003
GUATEMALA: Elections again under threat from PACs
The threat of violence once again hangs over elections in Guatemala, as former members of the peasant militia units known as PACs gear up to protest against a ruling barring compensation payments promised them by outgoing President Alfonso Portillo — which both contenders in the 28 December presidential run-off, Oscar Berger and Alvaro Colom, have said they will honour.
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