Guatemala drug slayings put pressure on government
Guatemalan President Oscar Berger is struggling to contain fallout from the murders of politicians and policemen in an election-year scandal that has revealed drug gang links to high-level security forces. In the space of a few days, the nation has been gripped by a saga involving the slaying of three foreign lawmakers, the arrest of senior detectives for the killings and their murder a few days later, their throats slashed in a prison cell. Full Story