Patrick Costello is a political adviser to the parliamentary group of the Party of European Socialists in the European Parliament. For three years, he co-ordinated the Guatemala work of the Central America Human Rights Committee in London. He has written a number of articles and papers on Guatemala for, amongst others, UNHCR and the Institute for Latin America Studies in London.

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Accord Issue 2: Guatemala

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