Jorge Mario García Laguardia (13 July 1931 – 13 September 2021) was a Guatemalan jurist.
Biography
He has been a tenured lecturer at several Guatemalan and foreign universities, including the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala City, where he founded the School of Political Science, Between 1985 and 1989 he worked for the Costa Ricabased Inter-American Institute of Human Rights.
As the Guatemalan Civil War drew to a close, he returned to his country and was appointed a magistrate of the Constitutional Court; he was serving there during President Jorge Serrano's attempted "self-coup" of 25 May 1993, when the Court was instrumental in preserving the country's constitutional order, preventing a military takeover, and installing Ramiro de León as caretaker president. After his time with the Constitutional Court, he was appointed to serve as the country's Procurator (ombudsman) for Human Rights (Procurador de Derechos Humanos).