THE CICIG PROSECUTES THE PAVÓN PRISON CASES In 1996 the Government of Guatemala took two decisions exemplifying the view that “tomorrow is a better day.” One of these was to stop the country’s internal conflict with a faulty truce. The… Read More

– or, When Is a Diplomat Not a Diplomat? The facts On August 27, 2017, Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales declared Iván Velásquez, commissioner of the UN-created International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), to be persona non grata… Read More

In October 2016, a squad of officers under orders of the UN “anti-corruption commission” and its handmaiden, Guatemala’s justice ministry, raided a private residence in order to carry out an arrest-and-search in a case of suspected money laundering…. Read More