Much to my surprise when I bought the morning paper the other day, I saw a picture of our town plaza on the front cover. It appears that on Tuesday three men that had been robbing and extorting the local tuk-tuk (little vehicles imported from Thailand) taxi drivers were chased down by the drivers who had had enough and taken into custody. This weekend two of the five gang members were arrested by the police at taken to jail. It then was discovered that the rest of the gang members were in town, so all of the taxi drivers fanned out looking for them. Apparently they had had enough of being robbed and extorted, so when the robbers were spotted all the drivers converged on the area, which just so happened to be in the neighborhood of our cousin. The three robbers were then stripped of their clothes, given a towel to wear and marched to the center of town. The picture I saw even showed them being accompanied by a few soldiers from the military. Once in the town plaza, on the stage of the small amphitheater, the men were kicked and beaten with leather belts. Once the taxi drivers were satisfied, the men were turned in to the police and put into jail. As you can see, in Guatemala the justice is dealt swiftly and with a leather belt.
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