As the end of her term at the head of the Public Ministry approaches, Consuelo Porras remains surrounded by a small circle of trust, amid secrecy, public absences, failed attempts to retain immunity and the departure of close officials. This is the x-ray of the last days of an administration marked by internal control, political wear and uncertainty within the MP.
The office of the attorney general, María Consuelo Porras, remains closed and few are chosen who manage to open the door to enter. It has been this way for eight years and, in the last two months, the secrecy has increased. What is said inside in the last days? It is the secret that the circle close to Porras keeps.
“I swear, I don’t even know what is happening. I hear and read theories, but there is nothing concrete and, therefore, I think it is gossip. Only those closest to me know what is happening in recent days with the attorney general,” confessed a prosecutor from the Public Ministry (MP), who requested anonymity for security reasons.
The close ones
Porras has stopped appearing at public events and, if he does appear, the invitation to the press may be selective or non-existent. One of the recent episodes was his absence at the presentation of the Criminal Prosecution Policy, on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. In his place was the metropolitan prosecutor Dimas Jiménez y Jiménez; That day he was the acting attorney general.
Jiménez y Jiménez is, in the opinion of the institution’s staff, one of the members of Porras’ circle of trust. Among those who have the confidence of the attorney general are Ángel Pineda, general secretary; José Rafael Curruchiche, head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Impunity; Leonor Morales Lazo, from the Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes against Justice Operators; Cinthia Monterroso, regional prosecutor of Region IV Northeast; Julio Recinos, section prosecutor of the Domain Forfeiture Prosecutor’s Office, and Miguel Estuardo Ávila, secretary against Corruption.
The closeness of these prosecutors has been strengthened during the two periods – from 2018 to 2026 – of Porras as head of the MP. Some got promotions and others built confidence, sources say.
Few appearances
The closest thing to a diary of Porras as attorney general that the population has access to is social networks. There some details of what he does in his last days are revealed. Among the published episodes there are work meetings, decorations and visits.
On May 1, Porras received the Attorney General of El Salvador, Rodolfo Delgado, and toured the facilities of the MP’s Criminal Analysis Directorate. She was accompanied by Pineda; Jiménez y Jiménez, and the advisor Juan Luis Pantaleón, who was director of the Department of Information and Press.
At that meeting, the attorney general of El Salvador presented Porras with recognition for “strengthening regional cooperation,” as detailed on the MP’s social networks.
On April 30, two work meetings in which Porras appears along with prosecutors were published on social networks. In one of the photographs he is seen with a discreet smile.
There have been few public appearances by Porras in recent weeks, and even less has it been revealed who he has contacts with a few days after his departure from the MP.
“The activity on April 29 was a formal event in which personnel from the prosecutor’s offices were invited to participate in the presentation of the Criminal Prosecution Policy, but it was not known that the attorney general was absent. We found out about that until we were there. I don’t know why she didn’t attend, much less where she was,” explained another prosecutor who participated in the activity.
Failed immunity
The days of greatest exposure for Consuelo Porras came in the last months of her administration in 2026, when she tried to preserve the right to pretrial and remain within the power structures of the justice system.
In February 2026, during the integration process of the Constitutional Court for the period 2026-2031, Porras applied to the Superior University Council of the University of San Carlos of Guatemala in two different ways: as a regular magistrate and as a substitute. The double nomination was seen as an attempt to secure a space on the highest constitutional court, whose members enjoy immunity. None of the applications were successful.
A month later, in March 2026, she again tried to reach the Constitutional Court, this time with the intention of being appointed by the Supreme Court of Justice as a representative of the Judicial Branch. It was not selected either.
The last movement occurred in April 2026, when he presented his file to seek a third consecutive period at the head of the Public Ministry. Although the law allows re-election, the aspiration was questioned by sectors that pointed to institutional wear and tear, persecution of justice operators and the weakening of anti-corruption prosecutors during his administration.
In the end, all four attempts failed. The nominations marked the political closure of an administration that sought to maintain influence within the judicial system, but ended up without achieving continuity or new pretrial guarantees.
They abandon ship
The final stretch of the Consuelo Porras administration was also marked by the departure of officials considered part of her circle of trust within the MP.
The most recent resignation occurred on April 6, 2026: the departure of Claudia Lissette Arrecis Mena, who held the Private and Strategic Affairs Secretariat for eight years. Although she maintained a discreet profile, she was one of the officials closest to Porras and one of the liaisons in the MP structure.
Before her, in January 2026, Deputy Secretary General Erick Schaeffer Cabrera, another of the officials identified as part of the team close to the Attorney General, left office.
Weeks later, in February 2026, regional prosecutor Aura Marina López Cifuentes also left, who was part of the group of operators with influence within the institution.
The departures occurred in the midst of the closure of Porras’ administration and coincided with his failed attempts to remain within the power structures of the justice system. For analysts, the movements reflected the beginning of the dismantling of the inner circle that accompanied the attorney general during her eight years of administration.
Postulation and punishment
Several career prosecutors participated in the nomination process for attorney general, but those who criticized the current conditions under which the MP operates coincidentally received reprimands. Marco Antonio Cortéz Sis, a section prosecutor with a 23-year career in the MP, ran and on April 6 presented a diagnosis of the institution.
“The work of the Public Ministry dropped to 45%,” he stated during his interview. “On April 29, Dimas Jiménez y Jiménez sent me a note informing me of my transfer to Río Bravo, Suchitepéquez. They did not like what I said, but we have the right to participate,” he expressed.
He added that the transfer was a form of intimidation and that there is fear among staff of losing their jobs. Prosecutor Francisco Eliseo Quiñónez also ran to lead the MP.
During his interview, he noted that criminal prosecution “is not carried out efficiently” and denounced pressure to dismiss or file complaints in order to achieve institutional goals.
On April 29, Quiñónez was notified that he would be transferred to Huehuetenango. Two other prosecutors who participated in the process were also transferred.
With fewer public appearances, an increasingly smaller circle and several of its operators outside the institution, Consuelo Porras is going through the last days of one of the most controversial administrations of the Public Ministry. While doubts about its future grow outside, within the MP secrecy remains intact.
