Citing corruption and a lack of government support for its mission, in particular in regard to the Attorney General, the highly respected head of CICIG resigned. You can find a story on it here.
I have read a few stories on this (mostly from Guat press) and this is the first one that tried to tie anything to adoption (6/11 - see update on this). Given the state of affairs for the still in-process cases, it seems rather hard to believe the AG has done anything to support adoption! With that said, I don't his history or where/how the NY Times got an adoption connection.
CICIG's work in Guatemala is EXTREMELY important. You can find some info on it here. So adoptions aside, this is saddening to me.
Click on more for an update 6/11...
UPDATE 6/11
1.) Reyes is out as Attorney General http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/world/americas/12guatemala.html2.) I've received a few e-mails about what I said about Reyes and adoptions. That connection had appeared in past press reports, just not ones I had seen. Of course, there's no specific allegations which doesn't mean anything one way or the other.
In short, I'm glad he's gone because as originally posted, CICIG is crucial!
Posted by Kevin at June 10, 2010 04:30 PMKevin, I agree that Castresana's resignation is not good news.
The connection between the fiscal (AG) and adoptions is not re: the current situation, but under the old system. This was reported in the Guatemalan news--either in El Periodico or La Prensa Libre. Norma Cruz, Rigoberta Menchu and Nineth Montenegro also formally opposed the fiscal's appointment.
Posted by: alexandra at June 10, 2010 07:56 PMThis is so discouraging!
Posted by: sjbj at June 10, 2010 10:02 PMSaw on Guatemalan Genes FB page :"Attorney general after much controversy accepts annulment of election."
Posted by: sjbj at June 11, 2010 11:26 AM