Guatemala - Nine arrested for murder that caused political turmoil

Nine suspects, including police officers and members of the military, have been arrested in Guatemala for the murder of prominent lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, who had accused President Álvaro Colom of his murder in a video broadcast after his death. "Rest assured, today your police, your prosecution service and your armed forces have arrested the murderers in one of the cases that not only shook Guatemala but the entire international community," Spanish prosecutor Carlos Castresana, head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, said in a press conference Friday. Rosenberg, a 47-year-old Harvard and Cambridge-trained corporate lawyer, was shot on May 10 while riding his bicycle in an upscale neighborhood in the capital. His murder sparked demonstrations demanding that the center-left Colom step down, after the posthumous broadcast of an interview in which the lawyer himself accused the president, in case anything happened to him. (In the interview, taped two days before his death, Rosenberg said "If at this moment you are hearing or watching this message, it is because Álvaro Colom had me killed.")