Guatemala is divided between supporters and opponents of President Colom

Thousands of Guatemalans have taken over the streets of the capital, some for the resignation of President Alvaro Colom, Sealed ordering the murder of a prestigious lawyer, and others to show support and solidarity.

Constitution Square, opposite the National Palace of Culture, has been filled with more than 4.0000 supporters of the president, according to organizers, brought in most of the rural communities of the country by the leaders of the ruling Party of National Unity of Hope.

Colom, are you, Alvaro, president friend, Guatemala is with you, With Colom to death , read the banners that adorned the hundreds bus from their communities to the demonstrators moved towards the capital. Alvaro Colom, the first Social Democrat who has ruled this Central American country, yesterday ordered his followers to calm and sanity, and ensures that the truth be known.

The president faced a serious political crisis after a video recorded by the lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, who was killed last Sunday in which defense Colom , his wife, Sandra Torres, and his private secretary, Gustavo Alejos of his murder.

Manifestaciones against Colom

At the Plaza Italia, in the Civic Center in the capital, some 15,000 Guatemalans, as their organizations have been concentrated for the resignation of the president.

The so-called peace march, which was convened by the powerful business sector come together in the Coordinating Committee of Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial and Financial (Cacif) gathered mostly in urban dwellers, members of the middle and upper classes of society.

The Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of the country in response to each presented yesterday by amparos CACIF managers, to guarantee their right to demonstrate, ordered the government to refrain from biased to the security forces during demonstrations.

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