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Guatemalan Protesters Want CICIG Gone

May 7, 2018      Grid, News

Broad Coalition Alleges Ideological Justice, Lack of Accountability, Violation of Sovereignty

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Guatemalan Politico Questions Disabilities Law, May Lose Congressional Immunity

March 30, 2017 Fergus Hodgson Grid, News

Unusual Case Raises Specter of Muzzling the Opposition

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AmCham Demands Guarantees for Foreign Investment

February 27, 2017      Grid, News

The rulings of the Constitutional Court to suspend operations of hydroelectric plants and extractive industries are worrisome.

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Guatemala Dodges a Guerrilla Bullet

September 8, 2015 David Landau Grid, News

The first round of presidential voting in Guatemala is over, and the surprise winner is … Guatemala itself. The contest between the various

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The Truth about Claudia Paz y Paz’s Reign over Guatemala

August 5, 2015 David Landau Grid, News

In October 2014, the staff of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security sat down for an interview with their “distinguished scholar in residence,” Claudia Paz y Paz. Five months earlier, Paz y Paz had left the post of attorney general for Guatemala after failing to win reappointment.

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The US Ambassador Who Covered for a Corrupt Guatemalan Judge

August 3, 2015 Steven Hecht Grid, News

A few weeks after the attempted assassination of Gilda Aguilar in 2012, a co-author of these articles, Steve Hecht, was invited to meet with Arnold Chacon, the US ambassador to Guatemala. Hecht went to the meeting alongside Professor Armando De la Torre, a dean at Francisco Marroquín University and a columnist for Guatemala’s El Periódico.

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Fabricating Genocide to Bring Down Ríos Montt

July 28, 2015 David Landau Grid, News

The elderly defendant, having been found guilty and sentenced for genocide, stood alone among the spectators. Adrift in a vast public space that was more like an auditorium than a courtroom, the old man wavered about with no one to lean on.

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Fired for Daring to Prosecute Extortion in Rural Guatemala

July 23, 2015 Steven Hecht Grid, News

Gilda Aguilar, a prosecuting attorney for Guatemala’s Justice Ministry, was hurrying home to her two teenage daughters. Another attorney, a friend of Gilda’s, was driving; and Samuel Gonzales, a young police officer, was her security.

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How the United Nations Did the Bidding of Guatemalan Guerrilla

July 22, 2015 David Landau Grid, News

In Guatemala, the Justice Ministry and its leader, the attorney general, have a separate place in the constitutional order. For one thing, the attorney general’s term does not coincide with the president’s. The president takes office on January 14 of every year divisible by four (2004, 2008, 2012, etc.); while the attorney general takes office two years later, on May 15.

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Unmasking Claudia Paz y Paz, Guatemala’s Human-Rights Diva

July 21, 2015 Steven Hecht Grid, News

“Georgetown University is one of the world’s leading academic and research institutions.” That’s how the university describes itself.
But Georgetown’s use of its prestige to elevate Guatemala’s former attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz, to star status raises questions about the direction the university has taken.

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