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It was created on December 12, 2006, when the United Nations and Guatemala signed a treaty-level agreement setting up CICIG as an independent body to support the Public Prosecutor's Office (Procuraduría General de la Nación), the National Civilian Police (Policía Nacional Civil) and other state institutions in the investigation of sensitive and difficult cases.
"Pacific demonstration" in Guatemala City, on April 25, 2015, after the first corruption allegations against the Pérez Molina Administration.. The La Línea corruption case began in Guatemala on April 16, 2015 when the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Spanish: Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala, CICIG) and State prosecutors accused a number of ...
Appointed by President Ramiro de León Carpio; Guatemala's first Attorney General. * Héctor Hugo Pérez Aguilera [3] March 15, 1996 – May 14, 1998: Interim Attorney General named by President Álvaro Arzú. 2: Adolfo González Rodas [4] May 15, 1998 – May 17, 2002: Appointed. 3: Carlos David de León Argueta [citation needed] [5]
Rates of crime in Guatemala are very high. An average of 101 murders per week were reported in 2018. An average of 101 murders per week were reported in 2018. [ citation needed ] In the 1990s Guatemala had four cities feature in Latin America's top ten cities by murder rate: Escuintla (165 per 100,000), Izabal (127), Santa Rosa Cuilapa (111 ...
Females in Guatemala are high danger as they become easy target for any men in high power, whether is government officials, military officials, or drug trafficking. As the population of female is increasing, the homicide rate have also increased greatly with women of ages 16–30 are the victims. [ 13 ]
While Guatemala has made efforts to move beyond its past, the country still remains extremely divided. By 1984, the large-scale massacres were generally over, the army had set up new bases throughout the Mayan heartlands and had accrued unprecedented economic power through the seizure of vast tracts of productive land and a number of key state ...
Since 2012, the government has opened at least five new military bases, with over 21,000 troops deployed throughout nine states.These "Citizen Security Squadrons" range from Huehuetenango to Quiche and Alta Verapaz, from Escuintla to Suchitepequez and Santa Rosa, and from Zacapa to Izabal and Chiquimula, and are also stationed in Guatemala City.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Guatemala, and is carried out by lethal injection and, to a lesser extent, the firing squad. The death penalty today remains only in Guatemala's military codes of justice, and was abolished for civilian offences in October 2017.