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    He’s one of Guatemala’s last independent judges. Will he be forced to flee, too?

    GUATEMALA CITY — As a judge who has worked for more than a decade in the fight against corruption here, Miguel Ángel Gálvez has taken on some of Guatemala’s most powerful people. In 2012, he ordered former President Efraín Ríos Mont to be tried for genocide. Five years later, he sent former President Otto Pérez Molina to trial for graft. Even as he faced criticism and occasional threats at ...
    by Jeff Abbott and Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times Jun 17, 2022 4 minutes
    Guatemalan Judge Miguel Angel Galvez speaks during a court hearing in Guatemala City on Oct. 27, 2017.

    GUATEMALA CITY — As a judge who has worked for more than a decade in the fight against corruption here, Miguel Ángel Gálvez has taken on some of Guatemala’s most powerful people.

    In 2012, he ordered former President Efraín Ríos Mont to be tried for genocide. Five years later, he sent former President Otto Pérez Molina to trial for graft.

    Even as he faced criticism and occasional threats at home, Gálvez’s reputation for independence drew praise from the United States, which sees anticorruption efforts in Central America as crucial to reducing migration.

    But nothing, he said, prepared him for the attacks he has faced in recent

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