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After an eight-month investigation, a U.N. agency concluded that Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom played no role in the shooting death of lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg in May 2009--despite a video left by Rosenberg saying Colom was planning to kill him. The panel said that evidence indicated Rosenberg had orchestrated his own murder to try to frame Colom, whom he blamed for involvement in the earlier slaying of his girlfriend and her father, a prominent businessman...
...whom he said, 'I have an extortionist who is threatening me, and I want to kill him,' " said Carlos Castresana, the Spanish lawyer who heads the Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a U.N.-backed investigatory body. CICIG, which conducted the investigation with the help of the FBI and Guatemalan investigators, presented its conclusions in a televised press conference. Investigators said arrest warrants have been issued for the cousins, pharmaceutical-company owners and brothers José Estuardo and José Ramon Valdez Paiz. They are reportedly in hiding. The hit men, three of whom cooperated with the investigation, were arrested...
...ZACAPA: CENTENARIO 23 This Guatemalan delight is a blend of 6- to 23-year-old rums, which are distilled from the honey-like first press of the sugarcane. (Many other producers use molasses, the tarry end product of the sugarmaking process.) Take a sip and your taste buds will be swaddled in rich caramel, fig and tobacco notes. Visit ronesdeguatemala.com for more information. (See 50 essential travel tips...
...president of Florida International University in Miami and an expert on Honduras and Central America. "But it's very incomplete." Even in Costa Rica, President Oscar Arias is elbowing for greater executive powers while weakening his country's famously strong environmental standards. The region's health - half of all Guatemalan children under age 5 suffer chronic malnutrition - and its education levels remain pathetically low. Only Africa has a worse regional literacy rate...
Read about the Guatemalan village that cocaine built...