Guatemalan lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg wrote a letter and recorded a video on May 9 saying if he was murdered while uncovering bank corruption that President Alvara Colom of Guatemala would be personally responsible and complicit.
The next day Rosenberg was murdered while rising a bicycle. Guatemala erupted into protests and have been using Twitter and Ustream.tv to spread the news and organize. One twitterer, Jean Anfer, was arrested and sentenced in one day for a 140 character twitter message about the bank urging people to withdraw money to force it to collapse.
Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing is also covering this closely. Start here.
Corruption and the abuse of power abound 🙁