Four Guatemalan journalists Emerson Diaz, Mario Linares, Fredy Lopez
and Alberto Ramirez (center) stand as hostages among an angry mob in La
Libertad, Huehuetenango, about 200 miles north of Guatemala's capital
October 27, 2003. Police tried negotiating with the rag-tag band of
ex-paramilitaries throughout the day on the edge of dense forest in
Guatemala's western highlands, where four journalists and another man
were seized during a protest Sunday. The paramilitaries earlier
threatened to kill their hostages. REUTERS/HO-Prensa Libre

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