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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...
...Rosenberg believed that Colom was involved in the Musa killings, which remain unsolved. In the video, recorded the week before his death, Rosenberg alleged that Colom, his wife and two associates were using the state-owned development bank for money laundering. The group then ordered the Musa killings to conceal the scheme, Rosenberg alleged...
...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...
...most important reforms for my government," he says. "It's the issue that affects Guatemalans more than any other." Indeed, the country has a murder rate more than 8 times that of the U.S. Only 3.5% of last year's 6,451 slayings were solved, CICIG said. Rosenberg's videotaped 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...
...Rosenberg went for his weekly bike ride, receiving a phone call from the killers during which he gave them final instructions. He waited five minutes on a grassy patch near a gangly group of bougainvilleas for the hit men to 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...