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Six former officials convicted in Guatemala for the deaths of 41 minors in a fire The teenagers were being held in a state-run home in 2017. The court orders an investigation into former president Jimmy Morales. Sofía Menchú writes in El País América on the outcome of the trial against state functionaries with regard to the fire which consumed the lives of 41 young women in the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción. “During these eight years, I have asked myself the question and continue to ask myself: What was in the hearts of these people that they did not hear the cry for help, that they did not open the door when we were asking them for help?” said Emelin Del Cid, a Guatemalan girl who survived a raging fire that killed 41 of her classmates, aged between 13 and 17. http://guatemalasolidarity.org.uk/2025/09/16/six-former-officials-convicted-in-guatemala-for-the-deaths-of-41-minors-in-a-fire/