Current Events

So around 2 weeks ago 3 El Salvadorean ex-officials and their driver were murdered. As it turned out, they were killed by the Guatemalan police. It was a huge deal, and all over the new and they had to come up with the culprits pretty quick (a sorry attempt to burn the car wasn´t sufficient to hide the bodies). So within a day or 2 they arrested 3 Guatemalan police officers. Then within another day or two, the police officers were murdered in their ¨high security¨jail cells. The police are promoting the story that the drug cartel did it. Right... with no inside help, they broke in, murdered them, then snuck back out? Anyways, there are pretty much 2 possibilities. The officers were completely innocent, but they needed a scapegoat (and were protecting the real culprits) and had them murdered to close the case... Or option 2... they were in fact guilty, had been promised money, but instead got murdered to prevent the possibility of them ratting out who gave them their commands.
Other news... within another day or so a police officer was murdered here in Xela, one of the guys we saw on a couple of our trips to the office the other week. It was completely unrelated to above situation, and rumor has it, it´s because he didn´t get along too well with his boss.... I really hope it´s not the guy PDH is working with.
Meanwhile, I´d like to point out the irony that with police and government officials dropping like flies, the US media is focusing on some sinkhole which I saw about a 10 sec. media clip on, and don´t even know where it´s at.
And finally to wrap up, Bush is making a trip to Guatemala this month, but hasn´t yet announced the day for security reasons. I´m not sure if he´s really brave or really stupid. Everyone I´ve met down here (Guatemalan and US) pretty much agree with Chavez that Bush is in fact Satan. There are plenty of people who´d love to kill him, and those that don´t are worried that someone else will, and this will cause more problems for their country. Meanwhile many of the Americans are eagerly awaiting his arrival as they want to join the Guatemalans in the anti-Bush protests.