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A bus driver writes a message on his bus during a protest in Guatemala City
25 Mar 2009
Source: Reuters
 
A driver writes a message on the window of his bus during a protest aimed at calling attention to constant bus attacks in Guatemala City March 24, 2009. In three attacks around the city gunmen killed a passenger and wounded two bus drivers. Also, a private security guard shot and killed one attacker and wounded another. Attacks on bus drivers are common in Guatemala where organized gangs extort money from the private companies that run the buses. According to police nearly 200 bus drivers, driver's assistants and owners have been killed in the last year. REUTERS/Daniel LeClair (GUATEMALA CONFLICT POLITICS)
REUTERS/Daniel Leclair


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A woman sits on a street as others stand on the sidewalk during a protest against Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom in Guatemala City May 17, 2009. Tens of thousands of protesters ...




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