Guatemala: Guatemala’s Presidential Election - A Golden Opportunity To End Mining Conflict

Guatemala: Guatemala’s Presidential Election - A Golden Opportunity To End Mining Conflict Keith Slack, 2011   When Guatemalans elect a new president in September, he or she will face a truly daunting set of problems. The country is, by any objective measure, a mess, overrun by Mexican drug traffickers and afflicted by one of the highest murder rates in the world. Guatemala’s murder rate is three times higher than Iraq’s. The scars of Guatemala’s brutal thirty-six year civil war (which only...

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