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Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom
Monday, Sep. 06, 2010

Open quoteIt's painful that poor people always pay the price for natural disasters.Close quote

  • ALVARO COLOM,
  • the Guatemalan President, on the news that at least 36 people have been killed in landslides caused by weeks of heavy rains. Parts of the country have received their highest rainfall in half a century
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