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President Alvaro Colom apologized to relatives of the more than 200 victims of a 1982 massacre in the village of Dos Erres.
In August...4 ex-soldiers received life sentences for the murders.
The soldiers suspected that the villagers supported rebels during the nation's 36-year-long civil war.
AND: Guatemala City residents are living with fear from rampant narco violence...and suffering from a kind of collective depression.
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