IT IS a year since Guatemala’s Constitutional Court threw out a genocide conviction against former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, ten days after he was sentenced to 80 years in prison. It must have given the unrepentant general a good anniversary chuckle this week that his tormentor-in-chief, former attorney-general Claudia Paz y Paz, is the one paying the price.
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