Haroon Siddique wrote in The Guardian on Virginia Laparra’s struggle for justice and her receiving of the Sir Henry Brooke award. A Guatemalan anti-corruption prosecutor forced into exile after being pursued by the country’s conservative elite has said that leaving… Read More ›
Impunity
The Genocide Trial and the Tightrope
José Luis Sanz wrote a two-piece chronicle in El Faro, published in Spanish in 2014, on CICIG, Claudia Paz y Paz, the genocide trial of Efraín Ríos Montt, and exile. The chronicle has been translated by Max Granger amid the… Read More ›
Arévalo’s “Democratic Spring” Polls Below the Nicaraguan Dictatorship
El Faro has presented a short video, scripted by Yuliana Ramazzini and Roman Gressier, on Bernardo Arévalo’s inability to curb criminalisation by the Attorney General and how his communications stumbles compound his inexperience as he struggles to make headway in… Read More ›
Fighting Corruption – Virginia Laparra awarded the Sir Henry Brooke award
In a significant acknowledgment of her relentless fight against corruption under perilous conditions, Virginia Laparra Rivas, a former prosecutor in Guatemala, was honoured with the prestigious Sir Henry Brooke Award for 2025. The ceremony, organized by the Alliance for Lawyers… Read More ›
Claudia Paz y Paz: “What Consuelo Porras seeks in Guatemala is impunity in all cases”
Yuliana Ramazzini writes in El Faro on the continuing corruption of the Guatemala judicial system through an interview with former Attorney General, Claudia Paz y Paz, internationally known for bringing to trial the first charges of genocide in Guatemalan history,… Read More ›
Guatemala: A 2025 Snapshot
Emilie Sweigart provides a snapshot for 2025 on Guatemala in Americas Quarterly. Elected on an anti-corruption platform, President Bernardo Arévalo and his center-left Semilla Party (which holds only 23 of the 160 seats in Guatemala’s unicameral Congress) have faced strong… Read More ›
Guatemala’s New Anti-Monopoly Law: Bark or Bite?
In December, two-thirds of Congress approved an anti-monopoly law proposed by legislators aligned with President Bernardo Arévalo, marking a significant improvement of their negotiating power in the legislature while sparking debate over whether the new rules will in fact curb… Read More ›
Central America’s Last Comandante
Writing in Jacobin, Emilie Teresa Smith and Margarita Kenefic, both former militants in the Guatemala’s Rebel Armed Forces (FAR) during the Guatemalan internal armed conflict, talk of César Montes, ‘Central America’s Last Comandante’, who led rebel forces, including the Guerrilla… Read More ›
Defense Strategy and Guatemalan AG’s Decisions Reduce Odds of Genocide Conviction
In the genocide trial against retired military commander Benedicto Lucas García, initially expected to end three weeks ago, the defense has attempted to recuse the court to delay sentencing. Last-minute tension is affecting proceedings: A judge is now on medical… Read More ›
Guatemalan AG Wants to Send Jose Rubén Zamora Back to Prison
After spending more than two years in prison in a corrupt judicial process, Guatemala’s most prominent newspaperman was released on house arrest pending retrial. But a Guatemalan court, at the request of AG Consuelo Porras, wants to send Zamora back… Read More ›
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