Wednesday 13 January 2010 18.15 GMT

Source: guardian.co.uk

By Jonathan Franklin

Rodrigo Rosenberg lived alone in an apartment in Guatemala City's trendy Districto 14, a refuge for diplomats and heirs to 19th-century fortunes. Miserable and divorced, the balding 47-year-old lawyer was estranged from his children, who lived in Mexico with his ex-wife. Rosenberg's bodyguard was the closest thing to a roommate, his abandoned bicycle on the terrace the closest thing to exercise.

On 10 May last year, he left his home at 8am. Security cameras would later show him mounting a bicycle and ­riding away, alone, on a two-lane, tree-lined street. The morning traffic was minimal as the assassins moved in. More camera footage shows a souped-up Mazda shadowing Rosenberg. The killing is over in seconds. The Mazda speeds away, and Rosenberg bleeds to death on the street. The Harvard-educated lawyer had been shot three times in the head.
The killing was horribly typical of Guatemala City, rated the third most dangerous city in the world, where an estimated 98% of murders are never solved. According to a 2007 UN report by human rights scholar Philip Alston: "Guatemala is a good place to kill."

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