clipped from: www.nzherald.co.nz 
GUATEMALA CITY - Jean Anleu was so fed up with corruption in his country that he decided to vent on the internet, sending a 96-character message on the social-networking site Twitter.
That message has now earned him a potential five-year prison sentence and the unfortunate distinction of becoming one of the first people in the world to be arrested for a tweet.
Writing under his internet alias jeanfer, Anleu urged depositors to pull their money from Guatemala's rural development bank, whose management has been challenged in a political scandal: "First concrete action should be take cash out of Banrural and bankrupt the bank of the corrupt."
These words illegally undermined public trust in Guatemala's banking system, according to prosecutor Genaro Pacheco.
Anleu's lawyer, Jose Toledo, believes the government wants to make an example of him.
His lawyer hopes this will all blow over and the trial, set for November, will never happen.