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Caribbean & Central America - March 2014 (ISSN 1741-4458

GUATEMALA: Renewed impunity concerns

Last month Guatemala’s constitutional court (CC) ordered the country’s respected attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz, to step down in May 2014, seven months before her four-year mandate is due to end. Together with the United Nations-backed anti-impunity commission in Guatemala (Cicig), which is due to leave the country in September 2015, Paz y Paz is considered crucial to progress in anti-impunity efforts. With the process to pick her successor already under way, Paz y Paz’s imminent departure has sparked fears from local and international human rights organisations alike that these efforts could well unravel under the Partido Patriota government led by President Otto Pérez Molina.

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