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Weekly Report - 05 September 2013 (WR-13-35)
GUATEMALA: End in sight for Cicig
Earlier this week President Otto Pérez Molina confirmed that the mandate of the United Nations (UN)-backed international commission against impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) would expire in September 2015. He made the announcement upon confirming that Colombian jurist Iván Velásquez Gómez had been designated by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as the new head of Cicig, which began operating in the country in 2007. Velásquez replaces Costa Rica’s Francisco Dall’Anese whose departure, like that of his predecessor, Spain’s Carlos Castresana, reportedly owed to tensions with the country’s economic and political elites. Velásquez takes over amid signs of progress by Cicig as well as other signs that it continues to ruffle feathers locally.
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