(AI Translated) Ramón Cadena is a Guatemalan lawyer and human rights defender with more than forty years of experience in locating detained or disappeared persons and defending judicial independence in Central America. Throughout his career, he has worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).

He was a judge on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Dos Erres case, and has acted as an expert witness for the Public Ministry in several cases, including the Genocide Case and other cases of criminalization of social protest.

The lawyer voluntarily presented himself before the Judicial Body on 10 November 2025, after his first‑statement hearing in the “Toma USAC: Botín Político” case was postponed twice, on 9 July and 23 October. He was scheduled to remain detained in Mariscal Zavala until 14 November 2025, when his first‑statement hearing was to take place; however, that hearing was also suspended and postponed to 18 November and then to 20 November, when he was charged with aggravated usurpation and continuous predation of cultural property.

He received substitute measures and regained his freedom on the night of 21 November 2025.