UN rights envoy urges Guatemala Congress against reinstating death penalty
March 25, 2008
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions [official website] Philip Alston [NYU Law profile] Tuesday urged [press release] Guatemalan lawmakers not to override a presidential veto of a bill that would restore the country's death penalty in a way he said would.... [more] 
Guatemala adoption agency lawyers on trial in 'human trafficking' case
March 25, 2008
[JURIST] Lawyers for Guatemalan adoption agency Casa Quivira [agency website] have been charged with human trafficking [JURIST news archive] as a result of irregularities discovered in the agency's records, the defendants' lawyers said Monday. The investigation began in August, when government.... [more]
Guatemala president vetoes death penalty bill
March 15, 2008
[JURIST] Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom [official profile] vetoed a bill [press release, in Spanish] Friday that would have restored the country's death penalty [AI backgrounder]. Decree 06-2008 [AI backgrounder] would also have given Colom, sworn into office just last month [AP report] the.... [more]
First Guatemala civil war disappearance trial opens
March 11, 2008
[JURIST] The first trial of a defendant accused of involvement in "forced disappearances" during Guatemala's 36-year civil war [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] opened Monday. Felipe Cusanero, a former member of a civilian paramilitary unit, is alleged to have been responsible for the disappearances.... [more]
Guatemala panel to declassify documents on civil war-era rights abuses
February 26, 2008
[JURIST] Guatemala [JURIST news archive] on Monday announced plans to declassify documents describing human rights abuses committed by its military during the country's 1960-1996 civil war [GlobalSecurity backgrounder]. Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom [personal website; BBC profile] has created.... [more]
Guatemala ex-police chief charged in Spain with war crimes dies
February 18, 2008
[JURIST] Former Guatemalan Police Director German Chupina, one of eight high ranking government and military officers charged [JURIST report] in Spain with genocide, torture, and other crimes against humanity, died Sunday at the age of 86. In December, a Guatemalan court ruled [JURIST report] that.... [more]
Guatemala court says no Spain extradition for ex-dictator facing genocide charges
December 18, 2007
[JURIST] A Guatemalan court has ruled that former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and other high ranking military officers cannot be extradited to Spain where they have been charged [JURIST report] with genocide, torture, and other crimes against humanity. In last week's decision, which was not made.... [more]
Guatemala congress establishes body to investigate organized crime
August 2, 2007
[JURIST] The Congress of Guatemala [official website, in Spanish] voted to create the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) Wednesday, establishing an independent body [press release, in Spanish] to investigate organized crime and official corruption. The CICIG, which will.... [more]
Mexico allows extradition of ex-Guatemalan president
November 1, 2006
[JURIST] Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez [official profile, in Spanish] has signed an order allowing Guatemala [JURIST news archive] to extradite former Guatemalan president Alfredo Portillo [Wikipedia profile] so that he can face charges of....... [more]
Ex-Guatemala dictator says Spanish arrest warrant on genocide charges unfounded
July 14, 2006
[JURIST] Efrain Rios Montt [Wikipedia profile], a former Guatemalan dictator, has called Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz's order for Montt's arrest last week [JURIST report] unfounded, insisting that he did not know of any crimes against huma....... [more]
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