María Consuelo Porras served as attorney-general of Guatemala from 2018 to 2026. Appointed by President Jimmy Morales, she dismantled many of the cases brought by the UN-backed anti-corruption commission CICIG, which Morales expelled in 2019. She pursued judges, prosecutors, civil-society leaders and journalists, some of whom went into exile or prison.
In 2022 America sanctioned her for corruption. After Bernardo Arévalo won the 2023 presidential election on an anti-corruption platform, she sought to prevent him from taking office, raiding polling stations, accusing him of fraudulent voter registration and pressuring the electoral court to annul the result. Arévalo took office despite this, but Porras remained in her post and charged protest leaders Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán with sedition, unlawful association and terrorism—a case still sealed. Her efforts to cling on at the end of her eight-year term failed; Gabriel García Luna succeeded her on May 17th 2026. Her spokesperson called accusations of political persecution "totally false".
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