Caribbean & Central America - January 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Late last year, Guatemala’s attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz, presented her second-year balance sheet, according to which the authorities had solved 28% of all murders in 2012, up from just 5% in 2009. Weeks later President Otto Pérez Molina trumpeted a decline in the country’s homicide rate for the third consecutive year in 2012. This progress was been overshadowed by renewed concerns about military impunity for human rights violations in the 1960-1996 civil war, amid an attempt by Pérez Molina, himself a former head of military intelligence (D2), to restrict the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corte-IDH) .

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