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Cristina Siekavizza
Guatemalan murder victim
Cristina Siekavizza (born 9 December 1977) is a Guatemala City mother of two children whose disappearance and possible murder by her husband early in July 2011 resulted in an extensive national news coverage focused on the connected issues of femicide and impunity.
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Roberto Barreda (deceased on August 6, 2020 in Guatemala City) was the main suspect in the disappearance and possible murder of his wife, Cristina Siekavizza. The crime would have occurred on July 6, 2011 and the trial was expected to take place in April 2020. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has prevented its realization. The trial was later cancelled given Barreda’s death on August 6, 2020 from Covid-19.
In this case, Ofelia de León, Barreda's mother and former president of the Supreme Court of Justice, is also accused. Investigator Óscar José Celada Cuevas and Javier Armando Mendizábal Ruiz are also implicated, whom the MP accuses of hiding information about the disappearance of Cristina Siekavizza.