Guatemala Slams
Destabilization Plan
Guatemalan President
Alvaro Colom denounced
that attacks against the
passenger transport
sector correspond to a
organized crime plan to
destabilize the
government.
About eight workers from
that sector have died
and one more has been
seriously injured after
a series of armed
aggressions in several
points of the capital,
whose characteristics
turn out to be very
similar.
"The attacks were
planned in strategic
places, with the very
latest in cars,
attackers did not steal
anything to pilots, and
due to the way they were
killed, we could say
that professionals did
it," said the statesman.
According to Colom,
there is a plot against
the government for
actions carried out in
the last few days to
fight violence and
investigate public
security bodies,
allegedly infiltrated by
criminal groups.
Former presidential
candidate and leader of
the Patriotic Party,
Otto Perez Molina,
stated that this is
essentially a showdown
between new authorities
and organized crime.
For Carlos Quintanilla,
from the Secretariat on
Administrative Affairs
and the Presidential
Security, the aim of
those crimes against
drivers is to motivate a
general strike in
transportation service
and generate
ungovernability.
Nearly 14 pilots and
assistants have been
murdered this year at
work, eight of them in
the last 48 hours, in
apparently coordinated
actions.
Colom expects to meet
today at the
Presidential Palace with
general secretaries from
different political
parties to analyze the
lack of public safety. |
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