Weekly Report - 08 July 2010 (WR-10-27)

GUATEMALA | New Cicig chief. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon named Costa Rica's current attorney general, Francisco Dall'Anesse Ruiz, to replace Carlos Castresana as the new head of the UN-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) on 30 June. Castresana had announced he was stepping down on 7 June, citing frustration with the failure of the government of President Alvaro Colom to cooperate with the UN-backed agency. Dall'Anesse, who has been Costa Rica's attorney general since 2003, rose to prominence as an anti-corruption campaigner through his efforts to bring the former presidents of Costa Rica - Miguel Ángel Rodrí­guez (1998-2002) and Rafael Angel Calderón Fournier (1990-1994) - to justice. He was also a driving force behind Costa Rica's first law against organised crime, approved last July.

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