Portillo Fires Back http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/19/headlines#8

According to former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo, he is being extradited to the US as payback for his principled opposition to the US invasion of Iraq. “I’m glad to tell Guatemalans I’m being chased for political reasons, for not following US policies in Latin America. I was the only Central American president who didn’t sign the letter supporting the US war and invasion in Iraq, and my argument was that my country had already been invaded in the past and signing a letter to support another country’s invasion was against my principles. I remember the ambassador and counselor’s words at that time: ‘revenge will come in the future.’ And the extradition request is the instrument of revenge.”