The Woman Who Reduced Impunity in Guatemala

[Judi Lynn]

The Woman Who Reduced Impunity in Guatemala
By Louisa Reynolds

GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 5 2013 (IPS) - Guatemala’s first female attorney general has managed to reduce impunity in a country where over 90 percent of murders go unsolved.

The question is whether the changes will vanish once Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz’s term ends in December 2014.

Never before had a former head of state been tried for genocide in his own country, anywhere in the world. But Paz y Paz managed to bring former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt to trial – above and beyond the fact that the final outcome is hanging by a thread.

Paz y Paz, 46, also carried out a purge in the public prosecutor’s office and achieved unprecedented results in sentences for homicide, rape, extortion and kidnapping.

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http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/11/the-woman-who-reduced-impunity-in-guatemala/

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