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In Guatemala, a presidential election in disarray

Lucas Perelló | June 6, 2019

Corruption and an unpopular president have paved the way for a crowded field of mostly unknown presidential hopefuls. After the country’s Constitutional ...
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Guatemalan rule of law at risk as Morales strikes CICIG again

Luis E. Barrueto | January 11, 2019

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales is playing constitutional hardball with the country’s top court, which in recent months has been the sole obstacle to ...
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Ten highlights from Global Americans in 2018

December 14, 2018

We combed through all of our publications from 2018 and selected what we thought were the best ten articles that captured the trends and events of the ...
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How big business enables authoritarianism in Central America

Javier Gutiérrez | September 27, 2018

Business elites have been willfully complicit in the pan-ideological rise of strongmen in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala.
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The U.S. decision to abandon CICIG in Guatemala doesn’t make moral or geostrategic sense

Benjamin N. Gedan | September 6, 2018

U.S. policy is never governed purely by moral calculations. But in the case of CICIG, it is hard to detect any concerns that remotely outweigh the U.S. ...
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Targeting the good guys in a country overrun by villains

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 ...
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The case for a Nobel Peace Prize for CICIG

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

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

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 ...
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