Guatemala turns to DNA to help solve war crimes
Comments OffGuatemala opened its first DNA testing lab on Wednesday hoping that genetic fingerprinting will help solve decades-old civil war crimes as well as more recent murders.
Guatemala’s Forensic Anthropology Foundation opened the $1.5 million laboratory funded by international donations to identify victims excavated from hundreds of mass graves from the 1960-1996 civil war.
More than a quarter [...]
Guatemalan murder mystery threatens government
A slain lawyer’s taped accusations that the president wanted him dead threaten to topple Guatemala’s first leftist government in more than 50 years and have sharpened the political divide between rich and poor.
Attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg looked squarely at the camera as he foretold his death: “If you are watching this message, it is because I [...]
Guatemala in uproar after lawyer predicts own murder — on YOUTUBE…
Comments OffRodrigo Rosenberg, a middle-aged Guatemalan lawyer, has become an unlikely YouTube star in macabre circumstances. In a video recorded last Friday at the offices of a friend, he sits behind a desk and talks at the camera for 15 minutes.
“If you are hearing this message,” Rosenberg begins, “unfortunately, it is because I have been murdered [...]
