Ugly Vigilante Justice

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Citing witnesses in the village of Rio Bravo, local media reported that the girl was beaten and burned to death for her alleged involvement in the killing of a taxi driver there earlier this month.

As much as we bitch about my home in the USA, there are far worse places to live.

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Guatemala is one of the world's most violent countries, according to the United Nations, which created a commission in 2006 to investigate corruption and impunity there. Nearly every murder in Guatemala goes unsolved, and convictions are achieved in only about 6% of all criminal cases, the commission says on its website.

Those are low conviction rates. Here are some others for comparison. http://ift.tt/1IlSVya

Ranb

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