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4 Feb 2015, 11:31 am by Simon Lester
USTR has posted Guatemala's first written submission in the labor complaint the U.S. brought against Guatemala. [read post]
21 Oct 2020, 1:09 am by Lauren McIntosh
The full policy brief outlining the ongoing attacks against the independence of the justice sector in Guatemala is available here. [read post]
  "The Zetas, Mexico's most feared and violent criminal organization, has moved operations to Guatemala. [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 10:43 am by Tate Brown
Guatemala’s Constitutional Court on Sunday ordered [order, in Spanish] that Iván Velásquez, the head of the UN’s International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) [official website], be allowed back into the country. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 5:41 pm by Simon Lester
Guatemala ICSID hearing can be viewed online here for the next couple days. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 10:18 am by Ram Eachambadi
The Congress of Guatemala [official website, in Spanish] voted Monday against lifting immunity for President Jimmy Morales over allegations of illegal campaign financing.This development comes just after a Guatemala congressional committee recommended [JURIST report] that Morales' immunity be voided to pave the way for an investigation into the matter by the country's attorney general and the UN. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 9:57 am by David Zwier
[JURIST] The UN International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and the Guatemala Special Prosecutor for Impunity [official websites], a division of Guatemala's public ministry, on Tuesday arrested former president Álvaro Colom and 10 former cabinet members on corruption and graft charges [official press release, in Spanish], including Alberto Fuentes Knight, the former finance minister who is now the chairman of Oxfam International. [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 11:04 am
The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) [official website,... [read post]
The European Union (EU) on Friday imposed sanctions against five individuals from Guatemala that “undermine[d] democracy, the rule of law or the peaceful transfer of power in Guatemala” according to a press release by the Council of the EU. [read post]
2 May 2008, 11:22 pm
Guatemala man gets 20-32 years in Kearney stabbing Journalstar.com A Guatemala man has been sentenced to 20 to 32 years in prison for stabbing his girlfriend and her sister in their northwest Kearney apartment. [read post]
20 Mar 2019, 10:42 am by Xi Lucy Shi
Aldana has denied any wrongdoing and planned to return to Guatemala on Thursday. [read post]
28 Nov 2023, 10:00 pm
FAMILY COURT LACKED JURISDICTIONAlthough his kid lived in Guatemala with the child’s mom since birth, when the two come to the United States to visit, the father refused to return the child to the mom.When the dad asked the Queens County Family Court to exercise “emergency jurisdiction,” and filed a custody petition, the court ultimately determined that it “lacked jurisdiction,” and directed that the child be released to the mother so that he could return to… [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 12:24 pm by Lauren McIntosh
Guatemala’s Congress was slated to elect an entirely new judiciary in mid-October of this year. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 12:25 pm by Steve Worrall
We continue to advise American Citizens not to initiate new adoptions until the Government of Guatemala has completed its implementation of the Hague Convention.Adoption reform legislation remains under discussion in Guatemala’s Congress. [read post]
29 Jun 2020, 6:56 am by Lauren McIntosh
As is the case in many countries across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has further undermined the rule of law in Guatemala due to the use of emergency measures to limit fundamental freedoms and blur the separation of powers. [read post]
19 Jul 2005, 2:31 am
Vice President Eduardo Stein made the acknowledgement in a small town north of Guatemala City, expressing remorse for the army's action that "wipe[d] out an entire community. [read post]
26 Apr 2013, 7:38 am by InternationalLaw Blogger
-Central American- Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) against Guatemala. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 11:17 am by Reproductive Rights
MSNBC: U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiments, by Robert Bazell: Government researchers infected patients with syphilis, gonorrhea without their consent in the 1940s U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea... [read post]
23 May 2022, 9:04 pm by News Desk
More than 30 people have fallen sick and four have died in Guatemala after eating shellfish. [read post]