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01 翻译

文章摘自 Bloomberg 。

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在 Ruano 谈论到犯罪嫌疑人寻求庇护时（asylum seeker），两个人在门外廊道出谈论着，坐在塑 料的扶手椅里，将自己的目光饶有责任地投向所有人，这些人随意地谈论着过去（who shuffles past, then resuming their conversation）。这俩人是 Ruano 的贴身保镖，由官方法院派驻来保护他，因为他已然树立了强劲的敌人。从2017至2019年，一个危地马拉改革者的想法总是摇摆不定的，数以千计的官方政府，警察及军事成员都被监禁起来，在一场综合性的反腐败探测活动中，由联合国支持的委员会发起。在那个时代， 最高法院的法官接近审判官 （the judge was approached by a Supreme Court justice），他说她正在为儿子寻求宽大处理（was seeking leniency for her son）。他孩子因诈骗以及洗钱被起诉。Ruano 记录了他们的会议，这场正义的成本是什么，就是她的工作，以及将她名字加诸于州际部门的腐败及非民主清单。

然而在2019年，时任主席的 Jimmy Morales 发现委员会正在审查涉及他个人的贪污指控，并且他也因此解散了专家小组。其他正在被调查的人，包括一项松散的前军官联盟和商业精英的联盟，（他们都）参加了一个激进而又成功的反抗运动，反抗改革者。去年，被驱逐的正义联盟在法律及立法领域内倾尽全力（cement their power over the judiciary）。她重新进入被指控对象，被上诉至最高法院（she was reinstated to the Supreme Counrt）。她回来数周之后，Ruano 被指控一项罪名，非法记录一场对话，涉及其本人与法院的人。现在，Ruano 等着见证最高法院是否会剥夺他的 法律豁免权 以开展一场审判。如果说他被起诉的五项罪名全部成立，他可能面临多达40年的牢狱之灾。

Ruano 作为法官已经14年了，如今他的工作就是处理这些事情，同时包括枪支、暴力、机构腐败、以及机构倒闭。他正在权衡一项决策，和他在法庭上处理的案件一样棘手。这些事件使得 Ruano 的命运依赖这样的司法体系，那就是他充分认为是腐败的，或者加入数以万计的危地马拉人，这些人都担忧他们的安全，以及找到国外的庇护（asylum seeker）。

“这是非常严肃的”他说，“但我需要好好准备，因为我没有太多时间”。

02 原文

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As Ruano speaks about crime victims who become asylum seekers, two men chat in the hallway just outside the door. They’re slumping in hard plastic chairs, casting obligatory glances at everyone who shuffles past, then resuming their conversation. They’re his bodyguards, assigned by court officials to shadow him because he’s made powerful enemies. From 2007 to 2019, a reformist mindset held sway in Guatemala; thousands of government officials, police and military members were jailed during a comprehensive anticorruption probe run by a United Nations-backed commission. During that era, the judge was approached by a Supreme Court justice, who he says was seeking leniency for her son, a man who’d been charged with fraud and money laundering. Ruano recorded their meeting, and the audio recording cost the justice her job and landed her on the State Department’s list of “corrupt and undemocratic actors.”

But in 2019, then-President Jimmy Morales found out the commission was examining allegations of graft that involved him personally, and he dissolved the panel. Others who’d been under investigation, including a loose confederation of ex-military officers and business elites, joined forces in an aggressive and successful campaign against the reformers. Last year, after the ousted justice’s allies cemented their power over the judiciary, she was reinstated to the Supreme Court. Within weeks of her return, Ruano was charged with a crime: illegally recording the conversation with the justice. Now he’s waiting to see if the Supreme Court strips him of his judicial immunity to allow a trial. If convicted on all five of the counts he’s been charged with, he faces as many as 40 years in prison.

But in 2019, then-President Jimmy Morales found out the commission was examining allegations of graft that involved him personally, and he dissolved the panel. Others who’d been under investigation, including a loose confederation of ex-military officers and business elites, joined forces in an aggressive and successful campaign against the reformers. Last year, after the ousted justice’s allies cemented their power over the judiciary, she was reinstated to the Supreme Court. Within weeks of her return, Ruano was charged with a crime: illegally recording the conversation with the justice. Now he’s waiting to see if the Supreme Court strips him of his judicial immunity to allow a trial. If convicted on all five of the counts he’s been charged with, he faces as many as 40 years in prison.

Ruano has been a judge for 14 years, and today his job is one where guns, violence and institutional corruption crash together. He’s weighing a decision as tough as any he’s made in the courtroom: leave his fate up to a judiciary that he believes has been thoroughly corrupted, or join the hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans who, fearing for their safety, have sought asylum abroad.

“It’s a very serious situation,” he says. “But I have to prepare myself. I don’t have much time.”