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6 Sep 2019

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Latin American Post

Guatemala: UN commission against impunity’s mandate ended; institution credited with exposing political and corporate corruption

“Goodbye to CICIG: is fight against corruption ending in Guatemala?”, 31st August 2019

…United Nations members, judges, civil society leaders, and former officials met in Guatemala to say goodbye to the UN commission against impunity, after, in 2018, President Jimmy Morales put an end to his mandate when his own family felt the rigor of his management…In the event, which lasted two days, there were no members of the country's political or business elite, which has raised doubts about whether the new government will follow the legacy of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), or its banishment It will allow a setback in justice. Several judges told Reuters that without CICIG, one of the most successful anti-corruption institutions in Latin America, it will be difficult for them to continue with some 70 important judicial processes due to threats against them, reduction of personnel and lack of transfer of capacities from CICIG…In its 12 years in Guatemala, CICIG traced an X-ray of corruption in the country, helped strengthen courts and professionalized the Public Ministry. But Guatemalans evoke it for sending powerful politicians and businessmen to prison…