Author Archives: Natalie Kitroeff

Why Guatemala’s Pérez Molina Is Considering Legalizing Drugs

By Natalie Kitroeff | Published: February 15, 2012
Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina has been acting strange lately. Just one month after his inauguration, he is already ruffling U.S. feathers, and making waves in the politics of the region in unexpected ways. Pérez Molina’s military past and hard-line “mano dura” security policy made many worry that he would backtrack on justice reforms led by [...]
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Ríos Montt’s Incriminating Self-Defense

By Natalie Kitroeff | Published: February 1, 2012
Barring any last minute appeals, General (ret) Efraín Ríos Montt will be prosecuted for crimes against humanity during his tenure as de facto President of Guatemala in the early 1980s, the most violent years of the country’s civil war. At a preliminary hearing last Thursday, Judge Patricia Flores declared the 85 year old Ríos Montt fit to [...]
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Why is Guatemala’s Ex-President Worried about his Genocide Trial? Ríos Montt’s Visit to the Attorney General’s Office

By Natalie Kitroeff | Published: December 20, 2011
Note: This post originally appeared on The Council on Foreign Relations Latin America’s Moment blog. Read the original here. Last Thursday, former de facto President of Guatemala during military rule, General (ret) Efraín Ríos Montt walked into the Attorney General’s office to ask whether they planned on trying him on ten-year-old war crime charges anytime soon. He [...]
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