Business elites have been willfully complicit in the pan-ideological rise of strongmen in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala.
How big business enables authoritarianism in Central America
By Javier Gutiérrez / jantgut /
Foreign Policy & U.S./Latin America Relations
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 Guatemala.
Human Rights & Multilateral Organizations
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 Americas.
Foreign Policy & U.S./Latin America Relations
Targeting the good guys in a country overrun by villains
By Benjamin N. Gedan /
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 /
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 /
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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 /
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 /
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 /
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.
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