• August 3, 2015 Unas semanas después del intento de asesinato de Gilda Aguilar en 2012, el coautor de esta serie de artículos, Steve Hecht, fue invitado a reunirse con Arnold Chacón, embajador de Estados Unidos en Guatemala. Hecht asistió a la reunión junto con el profesor Armando De La Torre, decano de la Universidad Francisco Marroquín y columnista para El Periódico de Guatemala.
• August 3, 2015 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.
• July 24, 2015 Gilda Aguilar, una fiscal del Ministerio Público de Guatemala, corría hacia su casa, a ver a sus dos hijas adolescentes. Otro abogado, amigo de Gilda, manejaba; y un joven oficial de policía, Samuel González, era el guardaespaldas de la fiscal.
• July 23, 2015 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.
• July 22, 2015 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.
• July 21, 2015 “La Universidad de Georgetown es una de las instituciones académicas y de investigación líderes del mundo”. Así es como se describe la universidad a si misma. Pero la utilización del prestigio de Georgetown para elevar a la exfiscal general de Guatemala, Claudia Paz y Paz, al estatus de estrella, levanta dudas sobre la dirección que ha tomado la universidad.
• July 21, 2015 “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.
• May 20, 2015 El Gobierno de Barack Obama y las Naciones Unidas están conspirando para presionar a Guatemala para que avance una agenda más allá del mandato de la ONU, que recuerda a la “dominación yanqui” que Obama previamente manifestó querer terminar.
• May 20, 2015 Guatemala’s congress last night voted to strip President Otto Pérez Molina of his official immunity from charges of involvement in a bribery ring. His former vice president, Roxana Baldetti, is already in prison, where she is awaiting trial on similar charges.
• April 6, 2015 The United States, under President Obama, is helping radical anti-Americans take power in our country.
• January 18, 2015 Su artículo de opinión Justicia denegada en Guatemala: El pseudojuicio a Ríos Montt, del 12 de enero de 2015, obviamente es bien intencionado pero sentimos que es confuso. La pregunta crucial del juicio a Ríos Montt es simple y potencialmente atroz: ¿Ocurrió un genocidio durante la guerra civil en Guatemala? El autor del artículo, Luis Eduardo Barrueto, quiere que esto sea verdad. Aún así, no puede evitar tener cierto manejo sensato sobre el tema, y eso lo traiciona.
• January 16, 2015 The question at the heart of the Ríos Montt trial is a simple and potentially dreadful one: did genocide occur during Guatemala’s internecine conflict?
• May 20, 2014 If you were observing US diplomacy in search of the curious – and you had decided to eavesdrop at one of its remotest, least-visited quarters – you would go to the Central American republic of Guatemala, where you would find something quite revealing about the nature of Barack Obama.
• November 12, 2013 In late 2011, Guatemala’s powerful attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz, brought criminal charges of genocide against the country’s former leader, General Efrain Rios Montt.
• October 7, 2012 For the past year or two, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other diplomats have been hand-holding an attorney general in Guatemala who has twisted the law for political purposes and acted against a constitutional order.
