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Thelma Aldana

Guatemalan jurist
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  • Guatemala
    Guatemala
    / Guatemala in the 21st century

    …were part of Attorney General Thelma Aldana’s unprecedentedly aggressive investigation and prosecution of organized crime and government corruption. In July former army officer Byron Lima Oliva—who was imprisoned for the 1998 murder of Bishop Juan José Gerardi and who ran an organized criminal network that spanned the country’s prison system—…

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    …were part of Attorney General Thelma Aldana’s unprecedentedly aggressive investigation and prosecution of organized crime and government corruption. In July former army officer Byron Lima Oliva—who was imprisoned for the 1998 murder of Bishop Juan José Gerardi and who ran an organized criminal network that spanned the country’s prison system—…

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