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		<title>Ex-Guatemala President Extradited to U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 19:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(GUATEMALA CITY) — Ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank accounts. The former president was taken from a military hospital where he was recovering from liver surgery and a heart condition and put on a plane, according to his lawyer Mauricio Berreondo. He said the plane was bound for New York after a stop in Miami. &#8220;I blame the government for what could happen to him,&#8221; Berreondo said. &#8220;Portillo is sick and there are several pending appeals.&#8221; He said one appeal had to do with establishing the state of Portillo&#8217;s health. Portillo, who was Guatemala&#8217;s president from 2000-2004, was taken out of the hospital on orders of Interior Secretary Mauricio Lopez Bonilla, Borreondo said. An Associated Press reporter saw a small white jet carrying Portillo take off late morning local time. &#8220;This decision is an important affirmation of the rule of law and due process in Guatemala,&#8221; the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala said in a statement. &#8220;We commend the Guatemalan authorities in the strengthening of rule of law and the fight against organized crime and corruption.&#8221; Portillo was turned over to U.S. authorities in the same week that the high court threw out a genocide conviction in another high-profile case against an ex-president, former dictator Efrain Rios Montt. That decision that has been widely questioned and criticized, including in the United States. Guatemala has been struggling to build a credible justice system, including with the help of a U.N.-sanctioned team of international prosecutors. In the U.S. case, Portillo allegedly deposited the money in Miami and transferred it to a Paris account in the name of his ex-wife and daughter. Guatemala&#8217;s highest court upheld the extradition last August after it was granted by former President Alvaro Colom as he left office in 2011. Portillo has called the proceedings a political reprisal by powerful Guatemalan businessmen and the U.S. government for not bending to their interests. He has also said the court agreeing to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=87682&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guatemala Top Court Overturns Genocide Conviction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(GUATEMALA CITY) — Guatemala&#8217;s top court overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and ordered on Monday that his trial restart, throwing into disarray proceedings that had been hailed as historic for delivering the first such guilty verdict for a Latin American leader. Constitutional Court secretary Martin Guzman said the trial needs to go back to where it stood on April 19 to solve several appeal issues. The ruling came 10 days after a three-judge panel convicted the 86-year-old Rios Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in massacres of Mayans during Guatemala&#8217;s civil war. It found he knew about the slaughter of at least 1,771 Ixil Mayans in the western highlands and didn&#8217;t stop it. The tribunal sentenced him to 80 years in prison, drawing cheers from many Guatemalans. It was the first time a former Latin American leader was convicted of such crimes in his home country and the first official acknowledgment that genocide occurred during the bloody, 36-year civil war, something the current president, retired Gen. Otto Perez Molina, has denied. Rios Montt&#8217;s lawyers immediately filed an appeal and he spent only one day in prison before he was moved to a military hospital, where he remains. A defense lawyer, Francisco Garcia Gudiel, told The Associated Press by telephone that he would seek the former dictator&#8217;s freedom. &#8220;There is no alternative,&#8221; Garcia said. &#8220;The court has made a legal resolution after many flaws in the process. Tomorrow we will ask that they liberate the general, who is being imprisoned unjustly.&#8221; The proceedings against Rios Montt were first suspended on April 19 after the tribunal hearing the oral part of his trial asked the Constitutional Court to decide if the proceeding should continue after another judge sought to have it annulled. The trial had been nearing closing arguments when that judge, Carol Patricia Flores, intervened. Flores had been in charge of the first phase of the trial, in which evidence was gathered and determined to justify a trial, but she was removed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=87102&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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