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Caribbean & Central America - June 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUATEMALA: Cicig loses key battles
The UN-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) has been dealt two of its biggest setbacks since it began its twin mandate, in 2007, of dismantling illegal security forces and clandestine security organisations (CIACS) and consolidating sustainable institutional transformation. Last month, former President Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004) and two of his ministers were acquitted of corruption. Days later, another court absolved Alejandro Giammattei, a former head of the prison service accused along with other former top officials of heading up a criminal justice network in the interior ministry and police (PNC) under the Oscar Berger administration (2004-2008). With both cases considered key tests of Cicig’s impact, the rulings illustrate the entrenched impunity that persists.
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