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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, p. 23

Guatemala. The Attorney General’s Office of Guatemala accused President Bernardo Arévalo of violating his autonomy by asking the police not to execute orders from that institution, in a new clash between the president and prosecutor Consuelo Porras, sanctioned by the United States. The ruler’s statements They constitute an attempt to violate the autonomy and independence that the Constitution and Guatemalan legislation grants to the Public Ministry (MP) and the judicial body.the entity indicated in a statement. The president assured on Sunday that he will not allow the public force to execute orders illegal of an MP criminalizing and arbitrarybut did not specify the procedure by which the legality of the prosecutor’s resolutions would be evaluated. Arévalo announced this measure after the search of the home of a former minister of his government and two days after, at the request of the prosecution, a court ordered the return to prison of journalist José Rubén Zamora, after a month under house arrest. Porras has opened cases against journalists and dozens of justice officials who investigated notorious cases of corruption.