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Guatemala Rally Targets President
Guatemala
Rally Targets President
Guatemala - Thousands of Guatemalans have
marched through the capital to demand the
resignation of President Alvaro Colom over
the killing of a lawyer.
Before his death lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg
recorded a video saying that if he was found
dead the President and his aides would be
responsible.
The tape was released the day after the
47-year-old he was shot dead on 10 May.
Mr Colom has denied involvement in the
killing, and his supporters staged a rival
demonstration in Guatemala City.
President Colom, the Central American
country's first left of centre leader for
half a century, has called on the US Federal
Bureau of Investigation and a United Nations
panel to investigate.
Mr Rosenberg alleges that he would have been
killed because of his links to a client, a
prominent businessman, who was killed in
March with his daughter.
Supporters of President Colom gather in the
Constitution Square of Guatemala City
Farmers and other supporters of Mr Colom
staged a rival demonstration
In the video Mr Rosenberg calmly says: "If
you are watching this message, it is because
I was assassinated by President Alvaro Colom
with help from Gustavo Alejos."
He was shot dead a few days later while
riding a bicycle.
The government has described the allegations
against Mr Colom as a conspiracy to
destabilise Guatemala.
Demonstrations by both sides over the week
have been escalating the crisis which
analyst say could threaten Guatemala's
fragile democracy.
The country remains deeply divided, more
than a decade after the end of its civil
war, between a ruling elite and a largely
indigenous population of poor farmers and
labourers. |
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