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The Constitutional Court (CC) has a new president
April 18, 2024, by Miguel Angel Sandoval
https://prensacomunitaria.org/2024/04/126140/
(Translated by Rights Action)
In a swearing-in ceremony, attended by members of the [U.S. government’s Engel list “of individuals who have knowingly engaged in acts that undermine democratic processes or institutions, engaged in significant corruption, or obstructed investigations into such acts of corruption”], a few judges, defeated politicians and fraudulent lawyers, all products of corruption, unpresentable magistrates and deputies, and a long list of mafiosi, the CC appointed a new president who, by the way, is included in the Engel list in his own right. This is not insignificant. We will see.
In this ceremony, where the magistrates were dressed in costumes of a play of the absurd, there was a notable absence: the president of the republic did not attend in protest against the CC appointing a corrupt person. And likewise, there was no one from the government cabinet. No one from the government cabinet was present in this act of the Engel list. Seeing is believing.
If we accept that the CC is the highest body of the State in constitutional matters, and that the once called Celestial Court is now referred to in social networks as the Korte Konstitucional -KK-, we can understand the process of decomposition that took place in recent years.
Honorability is no longer the brand image of the CC. Now its figurehead is that of corruption as pointed out by the Engel list, as well as by many countries and actors of the international community and of national opinion.
The KK (CC) is no longer the last frontier in legal issues. It is the first stop in hindering the actions of a government that seeks to fight corruption. This is the way things are. It is no coincidence that the Court has been linked to the Covenant of the Corrupt, or that it has been accused of making arbitrary judicial resolutions. These are the facts and they are well documented.
But what should also be emphasized is that a quick look at the national media, both written and online, shows that inauguration was not a significant event for any of them. They chose to neglect the key fact that the government did not attend the celebration of the corrupt, and the government made its absence clear.
In addition, it is not mentioned that the new president of the KK is a member of the Engel list. Is this the best way to inform? people ask in different spaces. It would seem not.
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IAPA urges Guatemalan government to guarantee freedom of the press
April 22, 2024, by Simón Antonio Ramón
https://prensacomunitaria.org/2024/04/la-sip-presenta-su-informe-sobre-visita-a-guatemala-y-la-situacion-de-la-prensa-en-la-region/
(Translation by Rights Action)
At its mid-year assembly, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) issued a resolution on the press freedom situation in Guatemala. It highlighted the violation of due process in the case of Jose Ruben Zamora Marroquin, and the lack of progress in the investigations of the murder and the exile of journalists.
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