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COPRECON: membership and agrarian-conflict caseload

Dossier
Land and property for foreigners15-tierra-propiedad.md
Domain
Who may hold land, and on what titletierra-propiedad
Room
Land/tierra
Audited
Audited

The Arévalo government created, by Governmental Agreement 100-2025 (published on 4 Jun 2025, checked at the AGN), the Presidential Commission for the Handling of Conflict (COPRECON), temporary for 4 years, chaired by the President and made up of the ministers of the Interior, Finance, Agriculture (MAGA), Environment (MARN) and Energy and Mines (MEM), for the peaceful settlement of conflict across various spheres; the agreement does not mention land specifically. According to its director Otto Zeissig (Prensa Latina, 13 Oct 2025), COPRECON inherited an inventory of files that “easily exceed 600”, runs eight regional offices in the departments with the highest incidence — Petén, Huehuetenango, Quiché, Alta and Baja Verapaz, Izabal and Quetzaltenango — and its Directorate of Agrarian and Environmental Conflicts may account for 75–80% of the cases handled. These are the official's statements; there are no published statistics, and the inventory can be requested from COPRECON.

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Figures

Publication of AG 100-2025AGN
4 Jun 20252025
COPRECON's termAGN
4 yearssince Jun 2025
Files inheritedPrensa Latina, entrevista a Otto Zeissig
more than 600statement of Oct 2025
Regional officesPrensa Latina, entrevista a Otto Zeissig
8Oct 2025
Share of agrarian and environmental conflicts in cases handledPrensa Latina, entrevista a Otto Zeissig
75–80%statement of Oct 2025

Caveat

the inventory, the offices and the percentage are the director's statements to Prensa Latina, with no published statistics

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  • Comisión Presidencial de Atención a la Conflictividad (COPRECON)Temporary commission (Governmental Agreement 100-2025, published 4 June 2025, four years) chaired by the President with the ministries of the Interior (Gobernación), Public Finance, Agriculture (MAGA), Environment (MARN) and Energy and Mines (MEM) for the peaceful settlement of social conflict; eight regional offices in Petén, Huehuetenango, Quiché, Alta and Baja Verapaz, Izabal and Quetzaltenango; a source on agrarian-conflict history for rural due diligence (an inherited caseload of more than 600 files)Public agency
  • Prensa LatinaInterview with Otto Zeissig (COPRECON), 13 October 2025: an inherited caseload of more than 600 files, eight regional offices, 75–80% of cases agrarian-environmentalOther

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