Thousands demand the resignation of Otto Pérez Molina. La Opinión. All rights reserved
As part of the peace agreements in Guatemala, a United Nations commission was set up on December 12, 2006: the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). Its mission was to assist the Guatemalan government in carrying out criminal investigations and proceeding with the punishment of those found guilty through institutional channels, in a country which is used to resolving conflicts with bullets.
The combined existence of the CICIG and the efforts of an extremely virtuous Attorney-General, Claudia Paz y Paz, produced an actual institutional revolution in the country. Murders were punished, former President Efraín Rios Montt became the first head of state to be convicted of genocide by a national court, and for the first time corruption cases began to be investigated.
