Claudia Virginia Samayoa is the founder and co-ordinator of UDEFEGUA, an organisation that works in the monitoring, investigation and raising awareness of organizations that defend Human Rights in Guatemala. She wrote recently, in La Hora, about the oligarchy, and big… Read More ›
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Despite Protests, Guatemala’s President May Be Stronger than Ever
Brendan O’Boyle writes in Americas Quarterly on how President Giammattei is, so far, able to hold off calls for resignation despite his attacks on the independence of the judiciary and his government’s catastrophic and grossly negligent response to the pandemic…. Read More ›
Traditional Guatemalan elites must change now. Here is where to start.
“Let’s suppose we were willing to meet with them [indigenous leaders and communities],” he said, “how would we even know where to find them?” Anita Isaacs writes a thoughtful and interesting piece in Plaza Pública about five traits of the… Read More ›
The Legacy of How Guatemala Destroyed its Own Anti-Corruption Crusade
A few months ago, Insight Crime published an interview with Juan Francisco Sandoval, the head of FECI ( Fiscalía Especializada Contra la Impunidad – Special Prosecutor Against Impunity). The interview focuses on the continued machinations of those in power to… Read More ›
COVID-19: “Because of the President, people think it is a joke”
The government announced a steady re-opening of the country and this scared the medical personnel at the temporary hospital in Parque de la Industria (‘Industry Park’) whp have fought each day against the COVID-19 illness and in the face of… Read More ›
Giammattei Begins Term Alongside Allies of Jimmy Morales
‘How does a former director of prison facilities connected to a massacre end up as president of Guatemala? In the country’s recent history, discontent with the political class has created fertile soil for people claiming to be saviors to take… Read More ›
The People Will Not Forget
Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno has written a fine piece, here, in the Los Angeles Review of Books setting out the importance of CICIG in the fight against corruption and impunity in Guatemala, and the forces that coalesced in its ultimate removal…. Read More ›
A public-private stitch-up
I came across this interesting piece by Jorge Murga Armas on the always useful albedrío website (I especially acknowledge the power of its ‘mouse-over’ image). Las Tramas de las ‘alianzas público-privadas’ could be translated as The Intrigues of ‘public-private alliances’… Read More ›
Guatemala: A Tax Code by and for the Oligarchs?
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