{"article":{"id":9141,"heading":"burning tires outside Guatemalan congress REUTERS\/Jorge Silva","author":"Reuters","created":"2001-08-05 09:28:12","modified":"2005-08-15 00:37:06","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:37:06","article":"","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Guatemalan students wear masks as they walk past burning tires outside Guatemalan congress during a protest against tax increase, Guatemala City July 26, 2001. Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo put security forces on \"permanent alert\" this week as Congress prepared to debate a controversial Value-Added-Tax increase from 10 to 12 percent today. Guatemala's fiscal revenue accounted for 9.4 percent of Gross Domestic Product in 2000, the second lowest tax-take in Latin America, just after impoverished Haiti. REUTERS\/Jorge Silva","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/08\/guate2.jpg","filesize":"21.6 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/08\/9141.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2001\/08\/guate2.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2001\/08\/guate2.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}