Security Unit Accused of Abuses Is Disbanded
From Times Wire Reports
A presidential security unit accused of abuses during Guatemala’s 36-year civil war was disbanded in a long-delayed act of compliance with the 1996 peace agreement that ended the conflict. President Alfonso Portillo acted only weeks before his term is to end.
The unit’s official purpose was to protect the president and his family, but it was accused of some of Guatemala’s most notorious political slayings, including the 1998 murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi and the 1990 killing of anthropologist Myrna Mack.
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