A series of tweets from Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network highlight the challenges facing the rule of law and judicial independence that the elites are trying to disband. The tweets are accompanied by graphics, as above, containing more information about… Read More ›
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The Election of Gloria Porras by the University High Council
Impunity Watch have just published a report, in Spanish, regarding the election of Gloria Porras to the Constitutional Court. On 4 March 2021, the Superior University Council (Consejo Superior Universitario – CSU) of the University of San Carlos of Guatemala… Read More ›
Amnesty for War Crimes is Back on the Table
In the midst of attempts to block justice being carried out either with regard to corruption or historical crimes, particular powers are attempting to introduce, into law, amnesty for crimes against humanity and genocide. Jeff Abbott writes in The Progressive… Read More ›
Guatemala’s Counterattack against Anti-Corruption Campaign
Gabriel Labrador writes in El Faro about the concerted attack by affected powers against anti-corruption figures in Guatemala. Targets include Judge Erika Aifán, who leads the capital’s highest-risk ‘D’ court, the Director of the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI),… Read More ›
Central America Needs a Commission to Prosecute Corruption, Not a War on Migration
Victoria Sanford had an interesting opinion piece published in BarrioZona in advance of the visit to Guatemala of the United States Vice President, Kamala Harris. Following a virtual bilateral meeting last month with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, Vice President Kamala… Read More ›
One man’s crusade to take on government corruption in Guatemala
Giselle Fernandez has a piece on Spectrum News NY1 about Juan Francisco Sandoval, the head of Guatemala’s Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (Fiscalía Especializada Contra la Impunidad – FECI). FECI is one of the few institutions left in the country… Read More ›
‘Huge step’: Relatives of Guatemala disappeared hope for justice
Retired military officials will stand trial on charges of disappearing and killing dissidents in 1980s during civil war. Sandra Cuffe writes in Al Jazeera about the Diario Militar Case (‘Death Squad Dossier’) and its effect on people who have been… Read More ›
Historical Memory in the Digital Age
In Guatemala, truthtellers and preservers of the past face renewed hostility. Digitization projects help safeguard the archives of state violence. Daniel Alvarado, Carlos Juárez, and Brie Gettleson write in NACLA about the importance of technology in the preservation of historical… Read More ›
Open letter to Mrs. Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States of America
Jordán Rodas Andrade, the Guatemala Human Rights’ Ombudsman wrote the following to Kamala Harris, the U.S. Vice-President on her visit to Guatemala. Your Excellency Madam Vice President: I am pleased to address you certain that your visit to Guatemala is… Read More ›
Attacks against women justice defenders threaten rule of law in Guatemala
Women judges and prosecutors trying to combat political corruption and impunity face harassment and persecution from on high Marlies Stappers and Sanne Weber write in Open Democracy about the attacks on women judges and prosecutors who have taken on a… Read More ›
