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...they] were responsible for that cowardly murder [of Musa], and I told them so," he said calmly in the video, dressed in a suit and tie. In leaving the recording, "he wanted to change the system, to change the culture of corruption and impunity that we live with in Guatemala," says his nephew Rodrigo Rodas. (See the top 10 scandals...
...Rosenberg's intent was to challenge Colom's legitimacy, he appears to have done the opposite. "Colom's position has been enormously strengthened. He comes out not only vindicated but looking like a statesman," says Anita Isaacs, a Guatemala expert at Haverford College who has testified before the U.S. Congress on peace building in the country. Colom, the first left-of-center President to be elected in more than 50 years, won office with the support of indigenous, rural Mayans and vowed to help alleviate widespread poverty in the countryside with programs that have angered the nation's oligarchy, including...
...calls for justice, which became an Internet sensation, resonated with tens of thousands of protesters - many of them students from the country's conservative private universities and children of the country's élite, who rallied in front of the presidential palace demanding Colom's resignation. (See more about Guatemala...
...have vowed to continue even after learning that their martyr effectively killed himself. "We are not disappointed because of the case," says Alejandro Quinteros, who founded Movimiento Civico Nacional, the most prominent new reform group. "We are disappointed because our government is not doing anything to reduce crime in Guatemala...
...come and kill him. In the days leading up to his death, Rosenberg bought a grave site for himself and one for Marjorie Musa. He left his law firm, turning over control to his law-student son. And he purchased a beach house on Guatemala's Pacific coast for his family, according to investigators and family members. "For someone like my uncle to be driven to this extreme, he must have been incredibly frustrated," Rodas says. "He must have been devastated...