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Insecurity Climate
Worries Guatemalans
Guatemala -
Representatives of
diverse social sectors
manifested their concern
for the high rate of
violence and insecurity
lived in Guatemala and
they called on
authorities to take
urgent measures to
counteract them.
José Pinzon, leader of
the General Workers
Central Trade Union,
qualified the situation
as serious, and he
requested the government
concrete actions to
return tranquillity and
trust to the population.
Eleonora Muralles, of
the Family and Friends
Group against
Delinquency and
Kidnapping, assured that
it is a problem
accumulated for a lot of
time without finding an
appropriate solution.
It is necessary to begin
to take decisions, the
activist said, for whom
it is not enough with
recognizing the
dimension of the crisis.
Guatemalan Interior
Minister Francisco
Jiménez admitted that
the country faces more
and more violent
expressions of the
organized crime, such as
massive murders with the
employment of weapons of
thick caliber.
About the situation in
the department of
Huehuetenango, where on
Sunday 17 people died in
confrontations among
drug trafficking bands,
the official said that
the region is under the
control of forces of the
police and the army.
However, he accepted the
weaknesses of the
security system
generated by the
inadequacy of economic,
technological resources
and of qualified
personnel.
According to Human
Rights Prosecutor Sergio
Morales, from January to
November 2008 there were
5,113 murders in the
country, an estimate
superior by 513 to the
registrations of the
same period in 2007.
Statistics also confirm
an increase in the
robberies, assaults,
extortions and
kidnappings that
maintain the population
in suspense.
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