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Weekly Report - 26 February 2009 (ISSN 1741-7422)
GUATEMALA: New suspect in Salvadorean murder case
The Guatemalan authorities this week revealed their latest suspect in
the infamous “Salvadorean murder case", which remains unsolved two years down
the line: Roberto Carlos Silva Pereira, a former legislator and member of El
Salvador's rightwing Partido de Conciliación Nacional (PCN). The announcement
followed a recent setback to the attempts by the UN-backed International
Commission against Impunity (Cicig) to prosecute the former attorney general,
Alvaro Matus [WR-09-06]. Cicig claimed Matus had obstructed efforts to
investigate the case, which had sparked a serious security crisis for the
Guatemalan government at the time.
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