Last year, Guatemala suffered major setbacks in its anti-corruption efforts. Fresh attacks on the independence of the Constitutional Court may be the final nail in the ...
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#CortesNoMafias: Guatemala’s Constitutional Court under attack
By Will Freeman /
In Guatemala, a presidential election in disarray
By Lucas Perelló /
Corruption and an unpopular president have paved the way for a crowded field of mostly unknown presidential hopefuls. After the country’s Constitutional Court ruled against two top contenders, the election shifted from a relatively safe bet to an uncertain ...
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Guatemalan rule of law at risk as Morales strikes CICIG again
By Luis E. Barrueto /
Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales is playing constitutional hardball with the country’s top court, which in recent months has been the sole obstacle to his attempts to oust CICIG. Now the entire judicial system—and the country’s fragile democracy—is at ...
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Ten highlights from Global Americans in 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 past ...
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How big business enables authoritarianism in Central America
By Javier Gutiérrez /
Business elites have been willfully complicit in the pan-ideological rise of strongmen in Nicaragua, Honduras and ...
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The U.S. decision to abandon CICIG in Guatemala doesn’t make moral or geostrategic sense
By Benjamin N. Gedan /
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. interest in establishing the rule of law in ...
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A conversation with Pedro Cruz, advocate for citizen participation initiatives in Guatemala
Global Americans spoke with Pedro Cruz, a leader in the fight against corruption in Guatemala and a member of our New Generation of Public Intellectuals of the ...
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Targeting the good guys in a country overrun by villains
By Benjamin N. Gedan /
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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 ...
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The case for a Nobel Peace Prize for CICIG
By Benjamin N. Gedan /
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 ...
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Graft-busters on collision course with Guatemala’s political class
By Luis E. Barrueto /
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 ...
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