Posted on 06/28/2010 11:26:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Two Guatemalan brothers who allegedly helped a prominent lawyer organise his own murder, and then blame the president of Guatemala for the crime, have turned themselves in.
Francisco and Jose Valdes Paiz were said to have hired a contract killer to murder Rodrigo Rosenberg.
An international commission found in January that Mr Rosenberg had organised his own killing.
He is said to have wanted to highlight unsolved murders in Guatemala.
Before he was shot dead in May 2009, Mr Rosenberg had warned in a video that he would be murdered on the orders of President Alvaro Colom. Mr Colom was later exonerated.
Police had been searching for the two brothers since December, when they first linked them to the murder of Mr Rosenberg.
'Blackmail ruse' A United Nations investigation found that Mr Rosenberg had told the Valdes Paiz brothers, who were his cousins, he was being blackmailed and needed their help to hire a contract killer to murder the blackmailer.
The pair allegedly hired the killer and, following Mr Rosenberg's instructions, told the killer where and when he could ambush the blackmailer.
But it was Mr Rosenberg who then appeared at the time and place given to the contract killer, and had himself shot, the commission found.
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Ok.
Sounds to me like someone was watching too many “Law and Order” reruns.
That is the kind of personal commitment we need in American politics.
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