The United Nations-affiliated commission at the center of Guatemala’s latest political crisis was created 10 years ago to help the country’s fragile public institutions take on criminal networks that had their origin in the country’s decadeslong military dictatorship and civil war. The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, or Cicig, was the first commission of its kind ever created by the U.N. Under the 1996 peace pact that ended the conflict, which killed some 200,000 people, mostly poor Maya indian...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2017 23:37 UTC