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Security & Strategic Review - December 2024
GUATEMALA: Seeking to recover control of the prison system
Guatemala’s interior minister, Francisco Jiménez, has hailed the recent transfer of 131 prisoners to the newly renovated maximum-security prison nicknamed ‘El Infiernito’, in Escuintla department, as “one of the most far-reaching actions in the history of the prison system”. This is line with efforts by the administration led by President Bernardo Arévalo to recover control of Guatemala’s prisons, a declared government priority. It is also consistent with the government’s key pledge to tackle extortion [SSR-24-03], of which 90% is planned from behind bars, on research cited by local think tank Centro de Investigaciones Económicas Nacionales (Cien) back in February.
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