No further developments observed.

By the time MINUGUA’s mandate expired in 2004, donations to the Trust Fund totaled 19.8 million US dollars. The donors were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, and the following countries provided UN Volunteers: Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Forty-five percent of the funds were spent to improve the judiciary and human rights protections, twenty-one percent for public security (mainly the National Civilian Police), thirteen percent to the Program of Institutional Assistance for Legal Reform, ten percent for MINUGUA’s public information programs, and seven percent for economic and social development. The balance of the Trust Fund was transferred to the National Transition Volunteer Programme when MINUGUA’s mandate ended in late 2004.¹

Donor support continued this year.

Donor support continued this year. In addition to bi-lateral support, the Inter-American Development Bank and other institutions lent 1.3 billion US dollars to Guatemala to get the peace process back on track in 2002.²

Donor support continued this year.

Donor support continued this year.

Donor support continued this year.

Donor support continued this year.

The Secretary-General had established the Trust Fund for the Guatemalan Peace Process during early rounds of negotiations, and when the Agreement on a Firm and Lasting Peace was signed in 1996, the Secretariat and MINUGUA requested additional contributions from donors to help the Guatemalan Government implement the many new commitments. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) worked closely with MINUGUA during the initial fundraising phase.¹

After years of attempted economic development, 57% of the population still lived in poverty, with 21% in extremely poor conditions. Guatemala had one of the worst rates of wealth inequality in the world.³ In 2006, President Berger embarked on a campaign to evict squatters from farmland they seized during the previous administration. One group of peasant farmers rose up and attempted to re-capture an estate by force after the owners fired hundreds of workers. At least five people were killed in the clash.⁴