Prominent Guatemalan anti-corruption lawyer killed in shooting
Police detained two suspects and seized a firearm and motorcycle after the killing of former prosecutor Juan Francisco Solorzano Foppa, officials said.
- On Saturday, 43-year-old anti-corruption lawyer Juan Francisco Solorzano Foppa was shot and killed by two men while visiting a sports center in Guatemala City.
- Known for his anti-corruption work, Foppa prosecuted powerful figures as head of the Criminal Investigations Directorate and later led the SAT tax authority from 2016 to 2018.
- In 2025, Foppa alleged connections between the Barrio 18 gang and the National Unity of Hope party; he also briefly defended journalist Jose Ruben Zamora in 2023.
- Shortly after the attack, Guatemalan police detained two men and seized a carbine-style firearm and a motorcycle in connection with the case.
- President Bernardo Arevalo condemned the killing, stating, "I strongly condemn the cowardly murder," and instructed his government to coordinate with authorities to solve the crime.
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Guatemalan Anti-Corruption Lawyer Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa Is Murdered
In Guatemala, a prominent anti-corruption lawyer, Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa, died after being shot by two men while visiting a sports center in Guatemala City. Guatemalan police reported that they had detained two men. President Bernardo Arévalo condemned the attack, saying, “The direct perpetrators and those who ordered the crime must face the full weight of the law.” Solórzano Foppa had been outspoken against Guatemala’s most powerful politicians, business leaders and companies. We’ll
Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa was a lawyer recognized for his fight against corruption.
Former Guatemalan prosecutor and anti-corruption activist, Juan Francisco Solorzano Foppa, was shot dead on Saturday, 17 October, on a football field he regularly frequented in the capital. Foppa was known for his commitment to the corruption that gangrene the country and for denouncing an alleged criminal network of politicians, business leaders and organized crime.
Juan Francisco Solorzano Foppa, a former prosecutor and lawyer known for his anti-corruption work in Guatemala, was killed in a shooting at a sports complex in the capital. Two suspects have been detained in connection with the attack, and President Bernardo Arevalo has stated that the perpetrators and those who instigated the murder will be punished.
Ex-Prosecutor and Lawyer Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa Shot to Death in a Guatemalan Football Field
His underage son witnessed the crime, which occurred earlier this Saturday. A member of the Guatemalan Judo Federation also died from a stray bullet.
This morning, lawyer Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa, a lawyer who challenged the so-called Pact of Corrupts, which does not end up being broken up in his country, fell under fire in Guatemala City. Just this October 15, he had denounced in a video of his social networks that the execution of eight peasants in the town of Huité, Zacapa, on September 27, was “a failed operation of CIA mercenaries.” That action, he said, was supported by two helico…
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