Central America’s Northern Triangle is infamous for high levels of violent crime and human rights abuses, producing “impunity states” in which violence typically goes unpunished. That violence reflects the broader impunity or “transitional injustice” that has persisted since the peace accords and transitions to democracy of the 1980s and 1990s. Several “posttransitional” trials for past human rights violations in recent years in Guatemala were made possible by institutional strengthening efforts in the prosecutorial agency, led by a unique United Nations commission. Significant progress away from broad impunity may also be seen in the 2015 “Guatemalan Spring,” in which a sitting president was forced to resign and submit to prosecution in connection with a corruption scandal. Comparisons of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras suggest that institutional strengthening is necessary before “posttransitional justice,” or an end to impunity more generally, can be possible.

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连续过去的重量：中美洲的过渡（内）司法和有罪不罚国家

中美洲的北三角地区因暴力犯罪和侵犯人权事件频发而臭名昭著，形成了暴力行为通常不受惩罚的“逍遥法外国家”。这种暴力反映了自 1980 年代和 1990 年代和平协议和向民主过渡以来一直存在的更广泛的有罪不罚或“过渡性不公正”。近年来，危地马拉对过去侵犯人权行为的几项“过渡后”审判是通过由一个独特的联合国委员会领导的检察机构的体制强化努力实现的。在 2015 年的“危地马拉之春”中，也可以看到在摆脱普遍有罪不罚现象方面取得了重大进展，其中一位现任总统因腐败丑闻而被迫辞职并接受起诉。危地马拉、萨尔瓦多的比较，