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 ongoing trial of Benedicto Lucas García on the charge of genocide against the Maya Ixil people. The day they knocked her down, Claudia Paz y Paz thought she had won the match.

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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 Guatemalan mafia politics. He promised a “democratic spring” in Guatemala but is less popular than Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega. You can view the video here, Arévalo’s “Democratic Spring” Polls Below the Nicaraguan Dictatorship.

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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, against former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt. In the last two months of 2024, Guatemala’s Prosecutor's Office for Human Rights suffered an internal earthquake threatening a series of cases of serious human rights violations against the country’s military elites.

Claudia Paz y Paz: “What Consuelo Porras seeks in Guatemala is impunity in all cases”’
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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, against former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt. In the last two months of 2024, Guatemala’s Prosecutor's Office for Human Rights suffered an internal earthquake threatening a series of cases of serious human rights violations against the country’s military elites.

Claudia Paz y Paz: “What Consuelo Porras seeks in Guatemala is impunity in all cases”’
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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 headwinds in advancing his transparency agenda. Judicial authorities temporarily suspended Semilla during the 2023 election, and the party was suspended again in late November.

‘Guatemala: A 2025 Snapshot’
Emilie Sweigart
Americas Quarterly
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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 headwinds in advancing his transparency agenda. Judicial authorities temporarily suspended Semilla during the 2023 election, and the party was suspended again in late November.

‘Guatemala: A 2025 Snapshot’
Emilie Sweigart
Americas Quarterly
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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 market concentration — or create insider loopholes. Yuliana Ramazzini writes in El Faro on the battle over new market competition rules and whether these rules rules will ultimately challenge or reinforce the decision-making influence of the most powerful economic actors in Guatemala.

‘Guatemala’s New Anti-Monopoly Law: Bark or Bite?’
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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 market concentration — or create insider loopholes. Yuliana Ramazzini writes in El Faro on the battle over new market competition rules and whether these rules rules will ultimately challenge or reinforce the decision-making influence of the most powerful economic actors in Guatemala.

‘Guatemala’s New Anti-Monopoly Law: Bark or Bite?’
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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 leave, and Attorney General Consuelo Porras removed five prosecutors from the case. Victims asked for international support to achieve the justice they have sought for more than 40 years.

‘Defense Strategy and Guatemalan AG’s Decisions Reduce Odds of Genocide Conviction’
Yuliana Ramazzini
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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 leave, and Attorney General Consuelo Porras removed five prosecutors from the case. Victims asked for international support to achieve the justice they have sought for more than 40 years.

‘Defense Strategy and Guatemalan AG’s Decisions Reduce Odds of Genocide Conviction’
Yuliana Ramazzini
@elfaroenglish.bsky.social
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#GuatemalaPactoDeCorruptos
#GuatemalaGenocide
#GuatemalaSiHuboGenocidio

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 to Mariscal Zavala, where the publisher suffered poor treatment including torture and due process violations. El Faro recently posted a short video on the above and it can be viewed, with English subtitles, here.

‘Guatemalan AG Wants to Send Jose Rubén Zamora Back to Prison’
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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 to Mariscal Zavala, where the publisher suffered poor treatment including torture and due process violations. El Faro recently posted a short video on the above and it can be viewed, with English subtitles, here.

‘Guatemalan AG Wants to Send Jose Rubén Zamora Back to Prison’
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