{"id":22245,"date":"2019-09-24T15:24:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=22245"},"modified":"2024-09-23T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T19:26:49","slug":"event-judicial-uncertainty-the-future-of-accountability-in-guatemala","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/event\/feed\/event-judicial-uncertainty-the-future-of-accountability-in-guatemala\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENT | Judicial Uncertainty: The Future of Accountability in Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rtejustify\">Over the past decade, Guatemala became an unlikely rule of law success story, with notable achievements in prosecuting corruption and atrocity crimes. Behind this progress lay a unique alliance of domestic prosecutors and judges with the UN\u2019s International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). When CICIG closed its doors early this month, it left behind big questions on the future of the rule of law in Guatemala. With recent presidential and congressional elections and a pending, controversial selection process for high court judges, there is much at play and much at stake for Guatemala\u2019s future accountability efforts.<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">Will progress on accountability be sustained or eroded in a post-CICIG Guatemala? What are the principal challenges to judicial independence in the country, and what can policymakers inside and outside Guatemala do to protect and strengthen the rule of law?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, Guatemala became an unlikely rule of law success story, with notable achievements in prosecuting corruption and atrocity crimes. Behind this progress lay a unique alliance of domestic prosecutors and judges with the UN\u2019s International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). When CICIG closed its doors early this month, it left behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":22246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"mec_category":[792,796],"mec_speaker":[],"mec_tag":[],"class_list":["post-22245","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-america-central","mec_category-guatemala"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/22245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/22245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22247,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/22245\/revisions\/22247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=22245"},{"taxonomy":"mec_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_speaker?post=22245"},{"taxonomy":"mec_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_tag?post=22245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}