[2] Ligorría, received the 2015 Reed Latino Award for handling the migratory crisis of unaccompanied children who arrived at the southern border of the United States.

[3] On September 26, 2017, Ligorría was arrested in Spain on charges that he laundered approximately $2 million in connection with Otto Perez Molina's presidential campaign.

In 1988 he founded the Interimage Latinoamericana SA, which provides consulting services in communications and public affairs to multinational companies and governments throughout Latin America.

Julio Ligorría was born in a family integrated by liberal professionals who dedicated themselves to commerce and industry in his hometown of Quetzaltenango and later moved to Guatemala City .

The nomination of Ligorría was due to the work he developed as ambassador from Guatemala in Washington during the humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied migrant children who traveled from Central America to the United States in the summer of 2014.

In 1999, Third place in the V prize of Liberalism in Latin America of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation[9] for his essay Equality Before the Law, the Key Challenge.

In 1987 he won the Ludwig Von Mises Prize awarded by the Center for Free Enterprise of Mexico for his essay on Right and Freedom in America.

After denying this offer, Ligorría received threats and persecutions so he decided to leave the country with his family to a self-imposed exile that lasts until 1993.

Later CICIG and the Attorney General’s office raised a new case against Julio Ligorria, this time, the prosecutors based it on a false press release, where Julio Ligorría was accused of money laundering via services that his company, which has more than twenty years of experience in the field of consulting, had lent to companies of a former government official.

Regarding the latter case, which was never related to Otto Pérez's campaign, it was that the National Audience in Spain ruled that the evidence presented by the Guatemalan public prosecutor was not an offense under Spanish law.