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FundaTerror was founded by Ricardo Mendez Ruiz, who has been sanctioned by the US government for being "implicated in actions detrimental to democratic processes or institutions, significant corruption or in the obstruction of investigations of such corruption".
His father, Ricardo Mendez Ruiz Rohrmoser, was the Commander of Military Zone 21, during the worst years of genocide and massacres committed by U.S.-backed military regimes in the 1970-80s.
In 2011-2012, the FAFG (Fundacion de Antropologia Forense) succeeded in exhuming the remains of 565 women and men, children and elders - mostly from Mayan villages - from mass graves located within the former military base #21. Until his death in 2016, Ricardo Mendez Ruiz Rohrmoser was implicated in the CREOMPAZ case as one of 17 Guatemalan army officers implicated in crimes against humanity.
Analysts denounce double-standard in Public Prosecutor's Office in SEMILLA investigation
The La Hora newspaper reports:
On July 12, the head of the Special Prosecutor's Office (MP) Against Impunity (FECI), Rafael Curruchiche, announced the suspension of the SEMILLA Party for alleged falsification of signatures during the legalization of the party, including deceased persons.
However, there are 18 similar complaints against other political parties that have had received little or no attention from the MP’s office.
La Hora found at least 18 complaints were made to Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) from 2020-2023, related to political parties allegedly signing the names of deceased people as members of their parties. […]
Analyst Renzo Rosal pointed out that, as mentioned in La Hora, there are reports of alterations of signatures by other political parties, which "have not advanced, while the case of Semilla "surprisingly" does. There is an evident bias of the MP in the case against the Semilla party.” […]
Manfredo Marroquin, of Acción Ciudadana, agreed that it is a selective case, since the Prosecutor's Office of Electoral Affairs has received hundreds of denunciations, and not only in cases of party registration, but also about the use of public funds for campaigning, but coincidentally only in this case does the MP seem to be strongly determined to try to penalize the party, as well as its members.
"It is not strange, it is a case of selective justice", stressed Marroquín. […]
For Eduardo Velásquez, it seems to be a case of selective persecution. "It could be that other parties have similar problems and they are not investigated, especially if they are parties that are linked to the ‘covenant of the corrupt’, as they are colloquially known.”
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