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...Letting 400,000 migrant construction workers, lawn-cutters and other laborers into the U.S. each year, legally and temporarily, is a solid way to turn the border's deadly chaos into a safer and more sensible flow - and let our border cops pursue genuine national security threats instead of Guatemalan nannies...
...Even in Guatemala, Latin America's most Protestant nation, there are signs that the more charismatic approach of the Catholic Church can reverse the trend. The number of Guatemalan Protestants stopped growing at the start of the decade and now numbers between 33% and 40%, according to Dr. Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Interim Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Texas. Every nation in this once homogenously Catholic continent has a bedrock of Catholic support that will never be eroded, and the numbers presented in Brazil last week may be a sign that those willing to choose...
...contrast, Guatemala, which Bush visits Monday, has made little progress in addressing its problems. "The government has been utterly paralyzed and ineffective in addressing the fundamental issue which is the extent to which organized crime, often involving former military officers and others, have infiltrated Guatemalan society to an extent that it threatens democracy itself there," says Tim Rieser, the top Senate Democratic staffer on foreign aid. 'At least Uribe was able to come up with a program that rallied the country behind him," he says...
Next, consider a well-meaning yet largely apathetic, consumer who miraculously discovers his deep feelings for the poor after reading the “fair trade” pamphlet at his local supermarket. He is somewhat uncertain about how a fixed price benefits Guatemalan farmers, but congratulates himself anyway on his newfound moral strength...
...That is why the Guatemalan government, with the leading voice of Vice President Eduardo Stein, has repeatedly stressed the need to create the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a U.N.-backed independent body that would be allowed to investigate high-level government corruption in the country. The proposal for the commission has been around for years but has failed to build up enough support to allow its passage in Congress. Authorities and human rights activists say it is the only way Guatemala will be able to uncover the full extent of illegal armed groups operating in the country...