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Weekly Report - 28 January 2016 (WR-16-04)
GUATEMALA: Cracks emerge in the military
President Jimmy Morales’s decision to fire Alfredo Sosa Díaz, the head of the joint chiefs of staff, has exposed divisions at the top. This has attracted particular interest given human-rights concerns about ties between former military officials and Morales’s small, conservative Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) government which took office on 14 January and the possible impact of these links on efforts to bring ex military officials accused of human-rights violations to justice.
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