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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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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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Guatemala Congress exonerates President Morales, offers blanket amnesty

Nic Wirtz | September 14, 2017

In short order the Guatemalan Congress passed a series of laws to protect criminals, including the president and his family. While some political leaders ...
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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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Chronicle of a Guatemalan Crisis Foretold

Nic Wirtz | September 1, 2017

Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales is in the midst of a crisis of his own making. Will he relent, or dig in and plunge the troubled country further into crisis?
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