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Achievements of UN Commission for Guatemala
Extolled
GUATEMALA - The International Commission
against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) made
significant progress in its work during its
two-year term which has been extended for an
identical lapse, highlights the Guatemalan
press here Saturday.
Among its achievements, the press mention
the investigation of 15 high profile cases,
including the former president Alfonso
Portillo�s corruption case (2000-2004).
Equally important were the investigations on
the massacre against 15 Nicaraguans and a
Dutchman in Guatemalan territory and the
infiltration in Guatemala of an armed group
of the Mexican Gulf drug cartel.
The above mentioned is included in a report
presented to the Interamerican Commission of
Human Rights in Washington Friday by CICIG's
head Carlos Castresana .
This Commission reached an agreement between
the UN and the Guatemalan government which
promoted the ammendment of the Law of
Weapons and Ammunition.
The CICIG also worked in improving the
witness protection program, it supported the
use of phone tapping and that high profile
cases be known by the high tribunal and
special courts.
The Commission was involved in the so-called
purification process of the National Civil
Police and the Public Ministry, as well as
looking after transparency of elections of
magistrates of the judicial power.
Castresana said to have identified secret
groups that had operated in the country
during the war (1960-1996) and had now
transformed from common delinquency to
organized crime.
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