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12-27-2006, 04:30 PM
The new head of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman, has told reporters from Listin Diario that the country was "plagued" by people using false identification papers. In general, the practice is to substitute one person for another. Castanos said that international criminals and drug traffickers have managed to obtain documents through civil registry offices and then gone on to obtain their personal identification cards (cedulas) and even passports. The JCE's chief magistrate asked the Attorney General's office to apply Law 659 that requires local prosecutors offices to supervise the books of the civil registry offices at least twice a year.

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