Guatemalan security forces have arrested a woman Tuesday of 19 suspected having placed a bomb on a bus in the capital Monday killed seven people and wounding 15 others.
authorities were unable to positively identify the person because she gave different names, but she is a member of a local gang, according to Minister of Justice, Claudia Paz y Paz. She was arrested following raids by police after the explosion that tore through a crowded bus in the capital Monday. tattoos on his body showed that it is Part " a major criminal gang ", said the minister later Tuesday evening. The young woman had been arrested the previous Friday and spent two days in jail for carrying a weapon of war (a Uzi assault rifle), said Wednesday the president of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom. The head of state assured that "drug trafficking is not involved in this terrorist act" , spreading and the trail of Mexican Cartel Zetas, whose growing weight in the Alta Verapaz (North) has prompted the government to declare a state of registered December 19 in that department. It has instead pointed the finger at "bands who practice extortion" , an apparent reference to the Central American gang known as more names maras , abbreviation of "marabunta" , carnivorous ants in the Amazon.
These gangs - Mara 18, Mara Salvatrucha and M-19 - were born in the 80 neighborhoods "Latino" Los Angeles and spread to Central America with the expulsion Hundreds of young U.S. to their countries of origin. According to the president of the union of bus owners in Guatemala, Chin Gamaliel, the authorities had received four anonymous telephone calls last month threatening to attack. Bus drivers have also paid 1.5 million dollars in ransom in 2010, according to industry sources. Some 119 bus drivers and 51 other employees in transportation were killed between January and November 2010 in Guatemala, according to advocacy groups of man.
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