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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...
...Rodrigo Rosenberg became a household name in Guatemala after he posthumously accused the President and First Lady of ordering his Mother's Day murder last year. His words, left behind in a video taped days before he was shot to death on a tree-lined boulevard, sent tens of thousands of protesters into the streets and sparked youth-led reform movements. But the case that once seemed powerful enough to topple a presidency came to a bizarre end on Jan. 12 as investigators concluded that Rosenberg, distraught over the murder of his girlfriend and her father, ordered his own death...
...Rodrigo Rosenberg himself that requested the help of his ex-wife's cousins ... to 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...
...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...
Among the documentary's highlights are emotional meetings between Marroquín and the son of one of his father's most famous victims: Colombian Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara, who was killed in 1984. Lara's son, also named Rodrigo Lara, is a Colombian senator. He was just 8 years old when he helped bodyguards bring his bullet-riddled father to the hospital. Still bitter about the assassination, he was skeptical about Marroquín. But after receiving a gracious letter from drug lord's son, he met Marroquín in a Buenos Aires suburb and the two ended...