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In 1960-1996 Guatemala one lived on the worse internal wars than Latin America has whipped. There 200.000 people died, most of Mayan civil they. Many thought that the wounds of this conflict were going away to heal after the aim of the bipolarity and by the fact that the old guerrilla went away connecting to the liberal democracy. The arrival of Alvaro Colom as the first Social-Democratic president of the country generated expectations that in the country tender could bridges between native communities that underwent massacres and the State. Nevertheless, a strong crisis has exploded.

The detonating has been the murder of Rosenberg lawyer, who, shortly before dying recorded a video in which he alerted that if he were victimado he would be by order of the President and his wife. The opposition has presented/displayed 30.000 companies having asked that the presidential immunity stops. Sunday were two opposed marches. One against the government and in who the predominant sectors were of clear complexion and middle-class or upper. The other was in favor of the agent chief executive and composed by humble people and of cobriza complexion. The government has sent the speech of which Guatemalas exists a confrontation between two: the one of the poor men and the one of the rich ones, and that what there is a conspiracy coup participant of the right and the narcotics detectives.

The polarization can worsen. The Group of River does not want that Colom falls. Although EE.UU or the countries of the region would not accept a military revolt preaches, it of the fight of classes could animate to that the old social bases of the left are radicalized.

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