Ever since Alfonso Portillo was sworn in as president in January last year, people have been wondering who is really in charge in Guatemala. Mr Portillo, a populist once close to the left-wing guerrillas who fought for 36 years, until December 1996, in the country's civil war, won the top job on the ticket of the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG). That party is led by Efrain Rios Montt, one of the war's bloodiest military dictators. With the cabinet divided evenly between General Rios Montt's men and the president's, there has been a predictable power struggle, which neither man is winning. Guatemala, however, is losing.
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