While His Citizens Suffer, Guatemalan President Colom's Administration Spawns Setbacks
Washington Report on the Hemisphere › April 05, 2010
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With the priority of focusing on a preferential option for the poor, including an allegedly "unprecedented rural development project," he proclaimed, "we intend to correct intolerance, discrimination, inequality and the absence of solidarity." A few months ago, his attempts to eliminate corporate tax loopholes, as well as now repudiated accusations Unking him to the murder of prominent lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, provoked thousands of angry members of the middle and upper classes to the streets demanding his resignation.
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While His Citizens Suffer, Guatemalan President Colom's Administration Spawns Setbacks
A President Who Is Not Making a Difference, Even if Innocent of Murder
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has recently declared that his country is in a "state of calamity" due to a lack of food resources for hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans. He has been quick to attribute the severity of the situation to the ongoing drought and the exacerbating effects of el Niño. As a result, Colom called upon the international community for emergency aid to alleviate the disaster now in full effect. However, contrary to the claims of the Guatemalan government, this emergency is not entirely the product of unalterable weather patterns, or of a cruel act of nature like the earthquake that devastated Haiti. Th...See the full content of this document
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