Polanco and other civil rights advocates say that for years the judicial and political systems in Guatemala blocked attempts to reconstruct the country's troubled past.

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Mario Polanco heads the victims' rights organization Mutual Support Group.

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The trendy 25-storey W hotel in Polanco dominates the edgier side of the DF hotel scene.

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Mr. Polanco is on modified-duty, stripped of his gun and badge and working a nonenforcement job.

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Polanco's relatives were extremely disappointed by the grand jury news, family attorney Sanford Rubenstein said.

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