Through his profile on the social network X, the president wrote that he is celebrating “the life of a strong woman, a symbol of resistance against a spurious persecution.”

Your arrest has revealed truths about our justice that the country needed to see, the head of State added, voicing his hopes of seeing Hernández free soon.

Hernández, who served as director of the Institute for Victims forwarded a request through her defense lawyer to be released from prison, but the seventh criminal judge, Fredy Orellana, rejected the request.

The Public Ministry (MP) and the National Civil Police captured the official following an investigation initiated by the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity.

The former deputy faces criminal proceedings for the crimes of electoral control of funds and unregistered electoral financing.

This desperate attack represents nothing more than the perverse desire to silence, oppress and extinguish any attempt to recover our country that has been captured by a small group of criminals who refuse to give up a power that no longer belongs to them, Hernández said before the arrest.

“How many more honest people have to be persecuted, imprisoned, forced into exile for us to realize that enough is enough? The answer is clear: either the MP wins or Guatemala wins,” she stressed.

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