**A UN investigation has cleared Guatemala’s President Alvaro Colom of involvement in the murder of a prominent lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg.**Mr Rosenberg, who died last May, had warned in a video that he would be killed on the orders of the president.
Now UN investigator Carlos Castresana says Mr Rosenberg ordered his own assassination.
He added that the lawyer’s own cousins carried it out without knowing Mr Rosenberg was the victim.
He was shot dead days after recording a video saying the president and his aides were out to kill him, and would be responsible if he were found dead.
Mr Colom has always denied any involvement in the killing.
He suggested that both the murder and the video were a reaction to his attempts to tackle organised crime.
The investigation was carried out by the UN agency known as the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).
The commission was created in 2007 to tackle widespread corruption in the country.