Thelma Aldana

Thelma Esperanza Aldana Hernández (locally ['telma espe'ɾansa al'dana eɾ'nanðes]; born 27 September 1955) is a Guatemalan jurist and politician who served as President of the Supreme Court from 2011 to 2012 and as attorney general from 2014 to 2018.

She is daughter of Humberto Aldana Vidal, a pharmacy attendant, and Marta Julia Hernández Garza, a rural teacher.

[7] In this, she closely cooperated with the Commissioner of the UN International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), Iván Velásquez Gómez.

[8] In 2019, Aldana entered the presidential election, campaigning on the platform of anti-corruption with new party Semilla.

[9] In 2015 Aldana won the Jaime Brunet Prize for the Promotion of Human Rights from the Public University of Navarra.