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Guatemala races to save 60,000 case files of testimony about abuses during armed conflict

Guatemala is racing to preserve 60,000 case files of testimony about abuses from its decades of armed conflict before President Bernardo Arévalo's term ends in January 2028

The Independent UK

How a UN Corruption Crusade Led To Guatemala's Arrest Order Against Colombia's Attorney General

Guatemala's Public Prosecutor announced arrest warrants for Colombia's Attorney General, Luz Adriana Camargo, and ex-Defense Minister, Iván Velásquez. Here's how scenes unfolded

Latin Times

Roses are red, violets are blue, 940 million flowers are traveling (through Miami) to you

If any husbands or boyfriends mess up Valentine’s Day this week, it’s not because of a shortage of flowers

The Independent UK

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GOP impeachment staff has theocratic tie

Staffers linked to theocratic groups, including one that teaches staffers to inject Biblical views into their work

Salon

LGBTQ+ foe joins Prayer Breakfast board

Former member of Congress opposes LGBTQ+ rights and has secret history with breakfast organizers

Salon

What's Behind Guatemala's Voracious Corruption?

Guatemala's president-elect Bernardo Arevalo has faced a judicial onslaught seen as an attempt by the country's powerful economic and political elite to perpetuate rampant corruption.

International Business Times

Standup and be counted: Eddie Izzard and the comics who took politics by storm

Can the surreal comedy superstar parlay comedy chops into political power? Izzard certainly wouldn’t be the first standup to pivot from telling jokes to canvassing for votes

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Guatemala's president-elect faces legal challenges that seek to weaken him. Here's what's happening

Guatemala's Aug. 20 presidential election has been bogged down in court and legal challenges despite the fact the results were clear: Progressive candidate Bernardo Arévalo won about 61% of the vote to conservative Sandra Torres' 39%

The Independent UK

Guatemalans to choose between political veteran, surprise outsider in presidential runoff

Guatemalans will select a new president Sunday between former first lady Sandra Torres in her third bid for the presidency and Bernardo Arévalo, son of ex-President Juan José Arévalo

The Independent UK

Guatemala: Justice system victim of government's authoritarian drift

Back in 2015, Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina was forced to resign before being eventually found guilty of fraud and criminal conspiracy. His downfall seemed proof that impunity for corruption was not inevitable in a country plagued by 40 years of civil war. Perez was the prize catch of the…

France 24

Guatemalans are fed up with corruption ahead of an election that may draw many protest votes

As Guatemala prepares to elect a new president Sunday, its citizens are fed up with government corruption, on edge about crime and struggling with poverty and malnutrition _ all of which drives tens of thousands out of the country each year

The Independent UK

‘Simulation of democracy’: Guatemala readies for election amid concerns of manipulation

Candidates have been disqualified on spurious grounds as experts warn of country backsliding into autocracy

The Guardian - US

Guatemala arrests former anti-corruption prosecutor

Guatemalan police arrested the country’s prosecutor for crimes against migrants Friday, accusing him of alleged abuse of authority

The Independent UK

Guatemala: former president sentenced to 16 years for corruption

Otto Pérez Molina and his vice-president found guilty seven years after they were forced from office but culture of impunity persists

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Top corruption prosecutor held in jail as Guatemalan elite bids to purge foes

Virginia Laparra detained in conditions ‘bordering on torture’, which supporters say is retaliation for her efforts to fight corruption

Los Angeles Times

He’s one of Guatemala’s last independent judges. Will he be forced to flee, too?

GUATEMALA CITY — As a judge who has worked for more than a decade in the fight against corruption here, Miguel Ángel Gálvez has taken on some of Guatemala’s most powerful people.

The Independent UK

Guatemala's much-criticized top prosecutor seeks 2nd term

Once the envy of Central America for anticorruption efforts that took down a sitting president, Guatemala’s attorney general’s office has more recently been accused of blocking corruption investigations, protecting powerful interests and persecuting those who pursued the corrupt

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