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Guatemala's Corte de Constitucionalidad (CC), its highest court, handed down a decision Feb. 17 that effectively strips ex-President Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004) and his vice president, Francisco Reyes, of immunity from prosecution. The decision suspended, provisionally, articles of the Tratado Constitutivo del Parlamento Centroamericano that give automatic membership in the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) to former presidents and vice presidents. With that membership comes immunity from prosecution for a host of crimes including those allegedly committed while the subjects were in office.
Immunity fell from the two with the publication of the decision in the Diario de Guatemala, the official organ, on Feb. 18.
The decision follows efforts by former presidents of the Corte Suprema de Justicia (CSJ) Oscar Armando Barrios and Ricardo Sagastume Vidaurre, and two lawyers, Ricardo Sagastume Morales and Donaldo Garcia Pelaez, to bring the case to court. The Sagastumes are, respectively,...
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