Lea la versión en español aquí Author: Mirte Postema* for Americas Quarterly This year has been important for Guatemala’s judicial system. A number of judicial posts are due to be filled in 2014, and so far this year, a new electoral tribunal and attorney general have already taken office. In July, the selection process for […]
CICIG Investigation Could Be a Game-Changer for Guatemala
Lea la versión en español aquí Author: Mirte Postema* for Americas Quarterly On September 3, 2014, Guatemala’s director of the penitentiary system, Edgar Camargo, and its former deputy director, Edy Fisher, were arrested—as were several others—for their participation in a crime ring run by a convicted felon from inside a Guatemalan prison. These arrests were […]
Corte de Constitucionalidad de Guatemala robustece normas para selección judicial
English version of this post is available here. Autora: Mirte Postema, DPLF En una decisión sumamente importante, la Corte de Constitucionalidad de Guatemala (CC) robusteció los procesos de selección judicial en el país. En la decisión adoptada en el expediente 2143-2014, la CC estableció que las comisiones de postulación (CdP) –entidades a cargo de la […]
One more time: Guatemala’s Constitutional Court requires lower court to justify inapplicability of amnesty
Author:a In a decision widely misreported in the press, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court last week asked a lower court judge to explain why Guatemala’s 1986 blanket amnesty law should not shield former dictator Efrain Rios Montt from judicial action. The lower courts have already held, and the Constitutional Court has agreed, that the later 1996 Law of National […]
Justicia en las Américas 