Guatemala Ex-President Pleads Guilty in Graft Case Amid Shifting Corruption Climate
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8 SEP 2023
Former Guatemalan president Otto Pérez Molina's guilty plea could be an attempt to avoid Arévalo's incoming anti-impunity push.
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22 JUN 2023
Despite previous campaign bans, Zury Ríos is one of this election’s forerunners, her success due to support from a wide range of allies.
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21 JUN 2023
Guatemala's political landscape is dominated by corrupt elites that have ensured impunity for themselves and their allies.
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12 DEC 2022
Guatemala's former President Otto Pérez Molina and former Vice President Roxana Baldetti were sentenced to 16 years in prison on December 7.
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4 JUN 2020
Just as Guatemala is completing a selection process to appoint judges to two senior courts, an investigation has revealed a familiar scheme involving criminal groups trying to influence these decisions.
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17 JUL 2018
Concern has been mounting since Guatemala’s new attorney general took office two months ago.
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4 APR 2018
Former Guatemala dictator and legislator Efraín Ríos Montt is dead, but he left behind a blueprint for how to undermine democracy and create powerful, lasting criminal networks.
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6 OCT 2017
Guatemala's anti-impunity body the CICIG has made dramatic new allegations in the case of the so-called "king" of Guatemala's prison system, implicating one of the most powerful politicians in the…
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29 JUN 2017
In our June 29 Facebook Live session, Senior Editor Mike LaSusa and Senior Investigator Héctor Silva Ávalos discussed the case of former Guatemala Interior Minister Mauricio López Bonilla, who is…
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2 JUN 2017
In our June 1 Facebook Live, co-directors Steven Dudley and Jeremy McDermott spoke about InSight Crimes special investigation of prisons and their often overlooked impact on organized crime…
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26 JAN 2017
Following Guatemala's long and brutal civil war, members of the military were charged, faced trial and sentenced to jail time. Even some members of a powerful elite unit known as…
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20 DEC 2016
A recent report has suggested that Guatemala's incarcerated former president and vice president continue to wield power from behind bars over a year after their fall from grace, casting fresh…
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15 DEC 2016
Former Guatemalan Interior Minister Mauricio López Bonilla -- a decorated war hero and a longtime US ally -- finds himself treading water amidst a flurry of accusations about corruption and…
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