Posted on 05/23/2009 6:02:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Guatemala Murder Scandal Could Threaten the Presidency
The scandal surrounding accusations that Guatemala's president orchestrated the murder of a prominent lawyer is intensifying deepening divisions in a country still recovering from a 36-year civil war. It is also, according to some analysts, handing the country its greatest threat to democracy since that war ended in 1996.
Tens of thousands of Guatemalans have taken to the streets since a video emerged in which Rodrigo Rosenberg, the lawyer, accused Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and three others of murder and corruption.
Mr. Rosenberg, who was shot dead while riding his bike on May 10, recorded the video days earlier, saying in it that: "If you are watching this, it is because I was murdered by President Alvaro Colom, with the help of Gustavo Alejos," the president's secretary.
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What? Jeez, we’ve got Koreans jumping off of mountains, and presidents murdering, and the guy we have here is picking the pockets of every American. Do these people have a club or something? Oh, yeah, Bohemian Grove. Hail Moloch!
Wasn’t there a sandal about an American president and his wife and a prominent lawyer??? Can you spell Ft. Marcie Park?
Exactly. And the ONE we have occupying the current WH.
I wonder if they committed Arkancide???
update
Suspects in Bizarre Guatemala Murder Case Surrender
BBC ^ | Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:26:27 AM by nickcarraway
Two Guatemalan brothers who allegedly helped a prominent lawyer [ Rodrigo Rosenberg] organise his own murder, and then blame the president of Guatemala for the crime, have turned themselves in. Francisco and Jose Valdes Paiz were said to have hired a contract killer to murder Rodrigo Rosenberg.
An international commission found in January [2010] that Mr Rosenberg had organised his own killing. He is said to have wanted to highlight unsolved murders in Guatemala.
Before he was shot dead in May 2009, Mr Rosenberg had warned in a video that he would be murdered on the orders of President Alvaro Colom. Mr Colom was later exonerated.
Police had been searching for the two brothers since December, when they first linked them to the murder of Mr Rosenberg.
‘Blackmail ruse’
A United Nations investigation found that Mr Rosenberg had told the Valdes Paiz brothers, who were his cousins, he was being blackmailed and needed their help to hire a contract killer to murder the blackmailer. The pair allegedly hired the killer and, following Mr Rosenberg’s instructions, told the killer where and when he could ambush the blackmailer. But it was Mr Rosenberg who then appeared at the time and place given to the contract killer, and had himself shot, the commission found.
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