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Weekly Report - 11 September 2014 (WR-14-36)
GUATEMALA: Cicig scores a late victory
Last week’s arrest of Edgar Camargo, the head of Guatemala’s prison service, accused of forming part of an organised crime ring, is being hailed as the biggest victory for the United Nations (UN)-backed international commission against impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) since Colombian jurist, Iván Velásquez Gómez, took over as its head in October 2013. The latest triumph for Cicig, whose mandate of investigating connections between organised crime and State institutions expires in September 2015, would appear to assuage concerns that the May departure of former attorney general (AG), Claudia Paz y Paz, might hinder anti-impunity efforts [WR-14-21]. The move comes as the Guatemalan judiciary is under renewed scrutiny as the process of electing supreme court (CSJ) justices is under way.
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