3 suspects emerge in Guatemalan lawyer's killing

Source: Miami Herald/Associated Press

Posted on Thursday, 05.21.09
3 suspects emerge in Guatemalan lawyer's killing
By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA
Associated Press

GUATEMALA CITY -- A top prosecutor says he has received a document naming three suspects in the killing of a lawyer who recorded a video before his death accusing Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom of ordering his slaying.

Human Rights Prosecutor Sergio Morales said the information appeared to be credible, but declined to give any details about the suspects, or the informant who sent him the document, to avoid compromising the investigation.

Colom, Guatemala's first leftist president in more than 50 years, has faced mounting calls for his resignation since a recording distributed at Rodrigo Rosenberg's funeral last week showed the attorney blaming his killing on the president.

Colom denies the accusations and has asked the FBI and the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala to investigate. The commission is a U.N. panel set up in 2007 to clean up corruption here.

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Colom's 2007 election victory gave Guatemala its first leftist leader since Jacobo Arbenz was thrown out of office in 1954 by a CIA-orchestrated coup.



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