Guatemala 2021: Reconsolidating Impunity and Reversing Democracy

SCHWARTZ, RACHEL A.

doi:10.4067/s0718-090x2022005000108

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“…Following the exposure of the corruption ring and the arrest of key operatives including then president and former general Otto Pérez Molina and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti, subsequent Guatemalan administrations targeted both the ciciG and judges and lawyers involved in prosecuting the criminal activity of elites (Schwartz, 2022). The ciciG was forced to cease operations in Guatemala in 2019, and a flurry of legal professionals have fled into exile in the last few years (Blitzer, 2022).…”

Section: Transnational Mining and Local Elite Networkmentioning

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“The Situation Will Most Likely Turn Ugly”: Corporate Counter-Insurgency and Sexual Violence at a Canadian-Owned Mine in Guatemala

Granovsky-Larsen

2023

Norteamérica

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This paper offers a window into the terrain of corporate influence over violence in the mining industry. The research draws on over 300 pages of internal communications and other corpo-rate documents, which were produced by Vancouver-based Skye Resources and released pub-licly as an affidavit in a civil court case in Ontario, Canada. The documents demonstrate the roles of mining company executives and their collaborators in coordinating events that led to the gang rape of eleven Maya Q’eqchi’ women in Guatemala during a 2007 land eviction. Ana-lyzing the documents through a framework of corporate counter-insurgency (co-COIN), the pa-per explores the importance of international consultants and local elite networks in co-COIN campaigns. The case study explored in this paper contributes to the theorization of public-pri-vate repressive forces within co-COIN. The research also offers a visual tool to map actors in other instances of mining violence, which is intended for use by both academic researchers and anti-mining social movements.

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Section: Transnational Mining and Local Elite Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“The Situation Will Most Likely Turn Ugly”: Corporate Counter-Insurgency and Sexual Violence at a Canadian-Owned Mine in Guatemala

Granovsky-Larsen

2023

Norteamérica

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“…As the CICIG’s, 2015 annual report concluded about La Línea case: “These actions demonstrated that no one is above the law .” While the CICIG’s anti-impunity shock did affect dynamics of state-criminal collusion in narco and sicariato industries, driving murder rates and state repression down, it did not have a similar effect on abating corruption. Velásquez’s strategic decision to double down on dismantling structures of administrative and political corruption backfired and stimulated the rise of a powerful anti-CICIG coalition that brought Guatemala’s IP experience to an abrupt end and subsequently spearheaded a rapid process of democratic backsliding (Schwartz, 2022).…”

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Containing Large-Scale Criminal Violence Through Internationalized Prosecution: How the Collaboration Between the CICIG and Guatemala’s Law Enforcement Contributed to a Sustained Reduction in the Murder Rate

Trejo

Nieto-Matiz

2022

Comparative Political Studies

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How do post-conflict societies contain large-scale criminal violence when state security forces that committed atrocities during a civil war remain unpunished and become key players in the criminal underworld? This article explores the impact on violence reduction of internationalized prosecution (IP): cooperation agreements between an international organization and a country’s public prosecutors to dismantle state-criminal networks through judicial action. We assess the IP process by which the United Nations–sponsored International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and Guatemala’s law enforcement dismantled over 70 criminal structures led by death squads and the civil war military establishment. Using synthetic control models, we estimate that Guatemala’s IP process plausibly prevented the occurrence of between 20,000 and 30,000 homicides, from 2008 until 2019. Case studies show how IP contributed to violence reduction by removing criminal structures and deterring both state-criminal collusion and the state’s use of iron-fist militarized policies against crime.

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Guatemala 2021: Reconsolidating Impunity and Reversing Democracy

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Cited by 2 publications

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“The Situation Will Most Likely Turn Ugly”: Corporate Counter-Insurgency and Sexual Violence at a Canadian-Owned Mine in Guatemala

“The Situation Will Most Likely Turn Ugly”: Corporate Counter-Insurgency and Sexual Violence at a Canadian-Owned Mine in Guatemala

Containing Large-Scale Criminal Violence Through Internationalized Prosecution: How the Collaboration Between the CICIG and Guatemala’s Law Enforcement Contributed to a Sustained Reduction in the Murder Rate

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