As of May 18, 2026, the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Impunity (Feci) will enter a liquidation stage, announced the new prosecutor of the Public Ministry (MP), Gabriel García Luna, on his first day in office.
Just hours after taking office, which happened at midnight this Sunday, May 17, García Luna summoned the media and answered questions; in addition to making a declaration of intentions about the work that he will lead during the next four years at the head of the (MP).
In this line of statements, he said that the liquidation of the Prosecutor’s Office that Rafael Curruchiche directed until yesterday, and was created during the permanence of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), will occur “because, unfortunately, the prosecutor’s office has lost citizen credibility.”
The decision is made in response to this lack of credibility, García Luna said; In addition, “it has been detected that, unfortunately, objectives are not being met.”
The liquidation process will serve to review each of the files and determine if there is any type of responsibility of the members, according to the analysis carried out, García Luna stated.
Plan of action
At the press conference, the new attorney general recalled that the MP “is not a political entity, it does not represent a government, it does not respond to a party project and it is not at the service of the particular interests of any sector.”
He acknowledged that his work will focus on recovering “citizen trust” in the institution, whose image “has been eroded,” which he described as “the biggest challenge.”
He also announced that in the following days it will be necessary to review “with technical rigor” the status of the investigations within the MP, the cases in progress and, if necessary, “correct the exodus” of former workers.
García Luna also announced that “a justice institution cannot depend on a political climate, each period or the orientation of the person who directs it at a given moment,” thus suggesting that its management will be independent, because the value of the MP “lies in its stability and predictability.”