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Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey (born 1966) is a Guatemalan attorney who served as the first female attorney general of Guatemala, from 2010 to 2014. A former judge and litigator, Paz y Paz made unprecedented strides in the prosecution of organized crime , corruption, and human rights violations.
Otto Roberto Herrera García is a Guatemalan national and career criminal, best known for turning Guatemala into a corridor for U.S.-bound cocaine. After being captured in 2004 and receiving a prison sentence, he escaped in May 2005 from his jail in southern Mexico City while awaiting extradition to the United States.
The OLX marketplace is a platform for buying and selling services and goods such as electronics, fashion items, furniture, household goods, cars and bikes. In 2014, the platform reportedly had 11 billion page views, 200 million monthly active users, 25 million listings, and 8.5 million transactions per month. [3]
Juan Luis Bosch Gutiérrez (cousin) Felipe Bosch Gutiérrez (cousin) Website. www.dionisiogutierrez.gt. Dionisio Gutiérrez Mayorga [1] (born 23 July 1959) is a Guatemalan businessman and media personality. He is currently the President of Fundación Libertad y Desarrollo. [2]
Illegal drug trade in Guatemala. The illegal drug trade in Guatemala includes trans-shipment of cocaine to the United States. According to some reports, Mexican drug cartels such as Sinaloa have also established poppy growing operations there. There is a reported relationship between the Mexican Los Zetas cartel and the Guatemalan Kaibiles ...
Rates of crime in Guatemala are very high. An average of 101 murders per week were reported in 2018. [citation needed] The countries with the highest crime and violence rates in Central America are El Salvador and Honduras. [1] In the 1990s Guatemala had four cities feature in Latin America's top ten cities by murder rate: Escuintla (165 per ...
The Civil Defense Patrols (Spanish: Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, PAC) were local militias created by the government of Guatemala during the Guatemalan Civil War. They were created by decree of General Ríos Montt on 1 August 1982, though they began before that under President Fernando Romeo Lucas García.
Juan José Arévalo. v. t. e. Bernardo Arévalo, the president-elect of Guatemala, completed his transition to the presidency upon being sworn in on the 15th of January 2024. He became the candidate of Semilla in January 2020. Vice-president-elect Karin Herrera led Arévalo's transition team. Arévalo's presidential transition has been atypical ...