Army troops in Guatemala secured government offices against hooded, machete-wielding mobs supporting former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt's presidential bid. Several thousand rioters -- armed with clubs and guns and angry that recent court decisions have blocked the former dictator's candidacy -- gathered around the city and attacked judicial buildings, which the government was forced to evacuate after bomb threats. President Alfonso Portillo deployed soldiers onto the capital's streets. At a political rally held in the capital for Rios Montt about 100 hooded rioters attacked and pursued at least six journalists. One of them died of a heart attack, the national head of forensic medicine said.

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