Targeting the good guys in a country overrun by villains

CICIG

Foreign Policy & U.S./Latin America Relations

Targeting the good guys in a country overrun by villains

By Benjamin N. Gedan / May 11, 2018

The recent criticism of CICIG from outside Guatemala is unexpected, unfair and shamefully counterproductive. The attacks only aid the local thugs, crooks and assassins that victimize Guatemalans.

Democracy & Elections

The case for a Nobel Peace Prize for CICIG

By Benjamin N. Gedan / October 27, 2017

Despite CICIG’s current challenges in Guatemala, the organization’s work to battle corruption in the trouble Central American country has been remarkable; a Nobel Prize may just help keep it alive.

Democracy & Elections

Graft-busters on collision course with Guatemala’s political class

By Luis E. Barrueto / September 12, 2017

As President Morales and the political class join forces to undermine investigators and the judicial processes currently underway, the role of citizens will prove crucial in tilting the balance in favor of justice and the continued fight against impunity.

Foreign Policy & U.S./Latin America Relations

Guatemala’s new round of corruption revelations. Deeper than thought.

By Mirte Postema / June 16, 2016

As Northern Triangle countries get ready to receive $750 million in aid, the CICIG issued new evidence indicating the extent to which ousted President Pérez Molina had turned the Guatemalan state into a vast criminal enterprise complicit with the private sector.

Democracy & Elections

Guatemala’s Uncertain Future after the Elections

By Orlando J. Pérez / October 28, 2015

The Guatemalan electorate has spoken, electing the political neophyte, Jimmy Morales, with no clear policy platform and a group of retired military officers with shady ties to the past behind him. The good news is Guatemalan civil society is mobilized and ready.

Democracy & Elections

What happens now in Guatemala?

By Orlando Perez / September 8, 2015

Part one of a two-part series, Doctor Perez here looks at the events leading up to the September 6 elections, their implications for the second-round presidential elections and the potential for long-term institutional reform (difficult). The second post will examine the political situation boiling in Guatemala’s neighbors, Honduras and El Salvador.