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Guatemalan Authorities: Arrest Warrants and Lopez Alonzo

guatemalan authorities: They were wanted on allegations of participating in the killing of more than 200 people in the village of Las Dos Erres in 1982, according to Metro News. The slaughter went unpunished for years — even after Guatemalan authorities issued 17 arrest warrants. Santos Lopez Alonzo is one of four such former soldiers arrested by U.S. authorities since 2010. In 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights demanded the country prosecute the perpetrators. A year later, another suspect deported by the U.S. was sentenced. Four former soldiers were sentenced in 2011 to more than 6,000 years for the killings. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.