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Security & Strategic Review - July 2025
GUATEMALA: UN rapporteur signals fresh concern over attorney general’s office
In late May Margaret Satterthwaite, the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, released a preliminary report following a visit to Guatemala. This highlighted renewed concerns regarding the state of the justice system and specifically the office of the attorney general under its head, María Consuelo Porras, whose continuance in post remains one of the main obstacles facing anti-corruption reformer President Bernardo Arévalo in his efforts to enact his pledge to dismantle the ‘pacto de corruptos’ network of institutional corruption.
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