Overview

• Tribunal Séptimo de Sentencia Penal convicted six former officials for their roles in the fire and imposed prison terms ranging from six to 25 years
• Santos Torres and Carlos Rodas received 25-year sentences, Brenda Chamán and Lucinda Marroquín were given 12 years each, Luis Armando Pérez Borja got 11 years and Gloria Castro six years while Harold Flores was acquitted
• Judge Ingrid Vanessa Cifuentes directed the Public Ministry to investigate former President Jimmy Morales for possible political responsibility in the tragedy
• Prosecutors presented evidence that temperatures reached 300°C during the 22-minute blaze and that locked exits and toxic conditions left survivors with minimal chance of escape
• Survivors’ families demand deeper accountability with reparations hearings scheduled and probes into institutional failures proceeding