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Caribbean & Central America - October 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUATEMALA: Government to deploy military
The military is being deployed with increasing frequency to back up the Policía Nacional Civil (PNC) in domestic security operations. If the defence minister, Francisco Bermúdez, gets his way then this will continue to be the case for years to come. In late September he said he envisaged the use of the military in domestic security operations for at least another two presidential terms.
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