Juan Francisco Sandoval wrote a piece for the ‘Justice in the Americas’ blog of the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF). The blog contains versions in Spanish and in English. On March 5, 2003, I joined Guatemala’s Public Prosecutor’s Office… Read More ›
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Is this Guatemala’s Plurinational Moment?
Tim May writes in New Socialist about the recent demonstrations in Guatemala, including the recent Paro nacional and places the moment within a period of increasing grass-roots mobilisation. Indigenous authorities are increasingly finding their voice within national politics but still… Read More ›
Suitcases of Cash: Guatemala’s Faltering Anti-Corruption Efforts
Sandra Cuffe writes in El Faro about the find, in a wealthy gated community, in Antigua, Guatemala, of about USD $15M in both Guatemala Quetzals and US Dollars. The search was carried out by FECI (Fiscalía Especializada Contra la Impunidad… Read More ›
Around the change-over of President
In the last couple of weeks, Guatemala has seen the swearing in of its new President, Alejandro Giammattei, and the unedifying site of Jimmy Morales scurrying off to the Central America Parliament (PARLACEN) so as to maintain his impunity from… Read More ›
In Guatemala, the rule of law strikes back
The following appeared as an Opinion Piece in the Washington Post yesterday. WHEN HE ran successfully for president of Guatemala two years ago, Jimmy Morales was a political novice, best known as a television comedian playing feeble-minded peasants. It turns… Read More ›
Jimmy or Iván? How to understand the current crisis in Guatemala
Carolina Gamazo writes a helpful piece in FACTum to give some background to the current crisis in Guatemala. The underlying thing is that Morales wanted to put a stop to attempts to prosecute him for illicit financing. Within hours of… Read More ›
The Dinosaurs are moving
Yesterday, 26th August 2017, through a recorded message and shared through social media, the President of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, announced his decision to to expel the head of CICIG (International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala), Iván Velásquez, from the country…. Read More ›
Guatemala: new president’s first few weeks in power
Last month, on October 25, Jimmy Morales won the Guatemalan presidential elections in a landslide victory. The new president, whose slogan was “not corrupt, not a thief”, strategically campaigned on an anti-corruption platform, earning himself 67.4% of the votes. Morales’… Read More ›
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