Sandra Colom's candidacy took another step forward when the Constitutional Court overturned a lower court's ruling that temporarily suspended her divorce from President Alvaro Colom. (Guardian, Nuevo Herald, and IPS). The IPS article provides additional information on women in Guatemala politics in general.
Kara Andrade writes about the rough week for law and order (Giammattei, Portillo, and Colom) in Guatemala at Americas Quarterly.
Rebecca Tran looks at Guatemala’s Crippled Peace Process: A Look Back on the 1996 Peace Accords at the Council on Hemispheric Relations. For earlier looks back at the peace agreement, you should check out William Stanley and David Holiday' “Broad Participation, Diffuse Responsibility: Peace Implementation in
Journalists are under attack in several Latin American countries, including Guatemala. Yensi Roberto Ordoñez Galdámez, a television journalist and teacher, was knifed to death Wednesday night or early Thursday morning in southern Escuintla province. Ordoñez had told his family that he was being extorted and had been receiving death threats.
According the the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Guatemalan government has agreed to compensate and apologize to the family of President Juan Jacobo Arbenz. Arbenz was removed in a CIA-organized coup in 1954 bringing an end to a democratic, social, and economic experiment in Guatemala. The government will offer the family monetary compensation and an apology. They will also provide public recognition of official responsibility in the coup that removed him from office. While the CIA gets most of the blame, Guatemalan church officials, military officers, and landholding elite were also supportive of the coup. (Taiwan News, Nuevo Herald)
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