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SAN BENITO, Guatemala — President Alvaro Colom oversaw hundreds of Guatemalan soldiers and police in a house- by-house search Tuesday for the killers of 27 cattle-ranch workers, while schools and businesses shut down in the terrified jungle town.
Colom arrived in the region to direct operations aimed at rooting out the Mexican Zetas drug cartel, which has moved into the northern province of Peten, a heavily forested area along the Mexican border.
Colom said 25 of the 27 victims in the weekend attack had been decapitated, and police are investigating whether kaibiles, Guatemalan soldiers trained in counterinsurgency methods, were involved. Mexican officials warned in 2005 that Zetas members were recruiting such veterans.
