Six pro-government deputies requested the Comptroller General of Accounts (CGC) to carry out a special audit at USAC to verify the integrity of the university’s academic and computer records.
In the official letter, the legislators indicated that for the academic cycle 2026, USAC implemented a free registration process, so the status of enrolled student It no longer necessarily depends on an individual proof of payment, but on the administrative, academic and computer records generated by the institution itself.
Therefore, they requested that the Comptroller’s Office determine whether those records were correctly generated, maintained and managed, and If there is correspondence between the official registration records and the information that currently appears in institutional systems.
Likewise, they requested to verify that, in the academic periods in which the university received income from tuition or other academic rights, there is agreement between the accounting records and the academic recordsin order to establish if there are inconsistencies that warrant legal or administrative actions.
The deputies They requested that the audit be urgent and covers the period between November 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026. They also requested that, in the case of re-entry students, the necessary historical records be reviewed to reconstruct their academic career and verify the integrity of their records.
Among the aspects that the CGC must establish, according to the request, is the possible existence of inconsistencies between the records used to formalize registrations for the 2026 academic year and the academic information currently contained in the official Usac systems.
PDH asks the Usac for explanations
The deputy José Chic, of the bench Will, Opportunity and Solidarity (VOS), who reported the case, confirmed that on July 23 the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDH) notified the University of San Carlos de Guatemala (Usac) that it requires information about the aforementioned events.
In the official letter, the PDH requests a detailed report from the General Director of Administration of the Usac, who must send it within a period of five days counting from the day following receipt of the notification.
The document warns that, if the institution does not deliver the required information within the established period, “the applicant’s statements will be considered true”as established in the institution’s procedure.
They file a complaint with the MP
A group of students from the University of San Carlos of Guatemala (Usac) This Friday, July 24, he filed a complaint at the headquarters of the Public Ministry (MP), in which he requests to investigate the alleged elimination of his academic records from the Registry and Statistics system, a situation that they qualify as a “academic death” and that, they claim, prevents them from continuing their studies.
Those affected asked that their registration and academic records be restored. “We are mostly workers who study and, in some cases, we are pursuing two degrees”they noted in a statement, in which they also affirm that the situation has generated uncertainty about the continuity of their studies.
As they explained, after detecting that they could no longer access the Registry and Statistics platform, they went to that university unit, where they were only told to present a memorial so that each case could be reviewed individually. Until now they have not received a response.
The students filed complaints for the alleged crimes of abuse of authority, concealment or deletion of dataas well as possible violations of the rights to education, freedom of expression, freedom of organization and discrimination.
With the legal action they seek that the MP investigate the causes of the disappearance of academic records and determine the corresponding responsibilities.