More Than a Million Judicial Cases in Guatemala Pending
More Than a Million Judicial Cases in Guatemala Pending
Guatemala, Dec 6 (Prensa Latina) One million, 210 thousand 743 records with reports of robberies, rapes, frauds, thefts and murders continue pending of a judicial process in Guatemala t, according to the Integrated Case Management System of the Public Ministry (MP) on computers.
The Prosecution Section Liquidation, created by the Agreement 3-2014 to expedite the processing of one million 280 thousand 378 cases shelved and reduce the wide margin of impunity in the country, managed to take69,635 cases to process during its first year of operations.
In that way, only 5.4 percent of neglected records were resolved, the report said.
Moreover, the staff in charge of this procedure, dismissed every day from 50 to 75 cases, for an average of up to 400 files a week, even checked by the judges, said the head of the body, Bonnie Avila, quoted by the newspaper Siglo 21.
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