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La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, p. 21

Guatemala. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), based in Washington, included Guatemala in its 2023 annual report on the human rights situation in the hemisphere and highlighted that judicial persecution and criminalization of people in the judicial sphere have intensified. in the country. It documented that the situation in Guatemala has been worsening since 2021 and that, by 2023, the year of elections, the deterioration of human rights and the rule of law has worsened. He recalled that the prosecutor’s office intervened in the electoral process in which Bernardo Arévalo won the presidency, despite the fact that the laws and the Constitution authorize only the Supreme Electoral Tribunal for such actions. The IACHR speaks in its report about the situation in countries such as Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua and includes Guatemala in the face of serious setbacks in the fight against impunity and corruption. The prosecution, led by Attorney General Consuelo Porras – sanctioned by 42 states that have banned her from entering their territories for undermining democracy and hindering the anti-corruption fight – opened investigations against President Arévalo’s party.