The Termination of an Anti-Corruption Commission in Guatemala
September 26, 2019
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On September 3rd, 2019, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) came to
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GUATEMALA: Congress Rejects Movement to Lift President’s Immunity Amid Potential Corruption Scandal
September 26, 2017
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Members of the Guatemalan Congress ruled in a sweeping vote on Monday, September 11, against the request from the CICIG to lift President Jimmy Morales’s immunity amid allegations of corruption and illegal campaign financing in the 2015 election.
External Investigatory Commissions Get Results in Central America
October 4, 2016
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On September 3, 2015, the president of Guatemala resigned after being charged with fraud, illicit association and corruption.1 Less than a week later, in Mexico, the government account of what happened to 43 missing students was discredited, calling into question the integrity of everyone from Mexico’s military to the president himself.2 Neither of these things could have happened without a key element of the investigations: two external investigatory commissions, organized by the UN and the OAS respectively, which turned out reports negating the validity of
