How Joe Biden’s Exclusion of Latin American Dictatorships Backfired
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How Joe Biden’s Exclusion of Latin American Dictatorships Backfired
Read morePresident’s Reappointment of Prosecutor General Shows Leadership Mettle
Read moreFeckless Observers Abandon Nicaragua
Read moreEconomic Free Zones Faced Political Headwinds, Lacked Constituent Support
Read morePlanned Crises Pave Way for Totalitarianism
Read morePerfect Storm of Policies Leaves US Southern Border Open
Read moreNeglected Ally Could Be an Economic Dynamo
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Read moreWhat Lies between the Lines of International Media Coverage
Read moreHispanic America Must Acknowledge Its History before Moving On
Read moreHow the Guatemala Experience Can Inform Troubled Neighbor
Read morePush, Pull Factors Make Southern Border More Attractive than Ever
Read moreOpposition in Oblivion, Abandoned by Biden Administration
Read moreEmbassy Warns US Citizens of Danger from Its Own Allies
Read moreColombian Senator Confronts Foreign Interference from Russia, Venezuela
Read moreWhat the State Department Won’t Tell US Representatives
Read moreShallow Reporting on Guatemala Undermines Magazine’s Credibility
Read moreHow Social-Justice Warriors Became Bedfellows with Corporates
Read moreLawless Venezuela Foments Narco-Funded Destabilization
Read moreDictatorial Regime Puts Educational Freedom in Its Pocket
Read morePerverted Engel List Targets Political Enemies
Read moreNicholas Virzi Addresses Crucial Development Obstacles
Read moreDeclassified Documents Reveal Álex Saab Collaborated with DEA from 2018
Read moreFeds Attempt to Undermine Transparency, Block Prosecutor General’s Reappointment
Read moreBiden Administration Puts Politics before Economic Development
Read morePresident Nayib Bukele Rejects IMF Loans, Keeps Spending Anyway
Read moreUS Citizens Decry Ambassador William Popp’s Support of Judge Erika Aifán
Read moreUS State Department, G13 Loom Large over Judicial Appointments
Read moreSignatories Want Commission Transparency, End to Foreign Interference
Read moreWe Are Conservative and Reject Secular Preaching
Read moreDeception Works as Communist Club against Enemies
Read moreFormer Revolutionaries Face Persecution
Read moreOfficials Desperate to Oust Prosecutor General Who Enforces Law
Read moreUS Neglect of Cuba, Venezuela Leaves Critical Flank Uncovered
Read moreHundreds Ensnared by Government Response to July 11 Protests
Read moreOnly a Federal Overhaul Can Turn the Democrat Takeover Around
Read moreJuan Diego Sánchez Contends Leftists Win Either Way
Read moreBeijing Secures Another Ally under Washington's Nose
Read moreUpside-Down Reality Conceals Criminal State Department
Read more65 Government Appointments Stem from USAC
Read moreAny Vestige of Constitutional Government Is on the Ropes
Read moreNew to Office, Marxist Pedro Castillo Already on the Ropes
Read moreHow January 6 Misrepresentation Fits the Democrat Plan
Read moreGabriel Boric's Win Heralds End of Pro-Market Era
Read moreOrwell's Prediction Is Closer Than Ever to Becoming a Reality
Read moreWill Individualism Prevail or Succumb to Collectivism?
Read morePlot to Impose Gloria Porras as Constitutional Court Magistrate Unravels
Read moreThe Subversive Judicial Strategy behind Her Constitutional Court Designation
Read moreXiomara Castro Set to Cut Taiwan Recognition, Undermine US Influence
Read moreUS Declassification Opens Door to Taxpayer Funding for Marxists
Read moreWhat the Law Requires for Nomination, What Happened in Her Appointment
Read moreCold Shoulder Shown to Guatemala Is Flawed, Hypocritical Strategy
Read moreCountry's Elite Must Confront History of Violence, Exclusion
Read moreState Department Allowed Aid, Covered for Shameless Dictator
Read moreCOVID-19 Era Sees Expanded Territories, Trafficking
Read moreSubverting Rittenhouse Verdict Would Repeat Communist History
Read moreAmerican Tradition Cannot Coexist with Collectivism
Read moreSocialism, Environmentalism Impede Counterweight to China's Belt and Road
Read moreFreedom Requires Recognizing and Fighting Polarization
Read moreOrtega-Murillo Take Latin American Dictatorship to New Absurdities
Read moreBiden’s Henchman Attacks Guatemalan Attorney General, Ignores Damning Facts
Read moreTougher Residency, Job Requirements Send Migrants Back North
Read moreTaxpayer-Funded Event Features Fugitives, Foments Rule-of-Law Crisis
Read moreConsuelo Porras Argues US Sanctions Weaken Criminal Prosecution
Read moreTaxpayers Must Demand Thorough Review
Read moreJudge Socialism by Results, Not Good Intentions
Read moreTheir Success Only Brings Enmity and Suffering
Read moreFaux Election Portends New Migrant Exodus
Read moreThe New Undersecretary of State Against Drug Trafficking Has a Dark Past in Guatemala
Read moreUS Ties Make Judge Erika Aifán a Flight Risk
Read moreNarco Rebels Control Former FARC Areas, Venezuelan Cities
Read moreDishonest Coverage Turns Blind Eye to Destructive Socialism
Read morePresident Bukele Imposed New Legal Tender without Consultation
Read moreHecht: Biden Will Funnel Funds to Support Criminal Socialists
Read moreHecht: Kamala Harris Met with Successors to the Fidel Castro-Supported Guerrillas in Guatemala
Read moreDemocrats' Campaign for a One-party Government in America Will Continue With or Without Old Joe.
Read moreIt Must Demonize Government to Cover Its Own Crimes
Read moreUSAID Bankrolls ‘Peasant’ Organizations Trying to Overthrow Government
Read moreThe Imposition of American Progressive Culture Is Counterproductive
Read moreBusiness Leaders Slept with the Devil, Got Burned
Read moreAbuse of Asylum Procedures Have Led to US Border Crisis
Read moreRegional Failure to Condemn Repression in Cuba Reveals Disarray
Read moreUprising for Freedom, Democracy Has Support of Florida Business Leader
Read moreGuatemalans Must Have Courage, Confront US State Department
Read moreBiden's Sanctions Are a Step towards Freedom
Read moreDemocracy Be Gone: Daniel Ortega Stalks Businessmen, Political Opponents
Read moreHollow Organization Is Socialist Deception
Read moreImprovised Coalition Lacks Support, Distorts Business Community
Read more‘America First’ Runs Deeper than Trump
Read moreUS State Department Takes Wrong Side, Abandons Allies
Read moreGuatemala Shows What to Expect from the Progressive Movement
Read moreArbitrary Accusations Include Innocent Guatemalans
Read morePoorest Nation in the Americas Is Profitable for Nonprofits
Read moreMore Courageous Leaders Must Oppose Marxist Assault on America
Read moreFocus on Sovereign Bonds Leaves Private Firms in the Lurch
Read moreGuatemala Has a Chance to Move toward Rule of Law
Read moreSpecter of Sanctions Serves Political Agenda, Not Rule of Law
Read moreTom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing
Read moreAnti-America Flag Authorized to Fly at US Embassies
Read moreViolent National Strike Is Path to Destruction
Read moreThe Constitutional Court's About-Face on Reform Injunction
Read moreMeeting with Criminal Exiles Promotes Lawlessness, US-Bound Migration
Read moreHarris Foreshadows Plan, Meets with Radicals in Guatemala
Read moreSocialist Assistant Secretary of State Would Prioritize Politics above Duties
Read moreGuatemala Assignment Traps Her in Failure by Design
Read moreMoney Drives Migrants, Not Persecution at Home
Read moreEnable Security, Prosperity: Resist US Pressure
Read moreLawlessness at Home and Abroad Leads to Democratic Party Dictatorship
Read moreGuatemala’s Constitutional Court in the Cross Hairs of Push Factor
Read moreUnsuspecting Donors End Up Funding Local Antifa
Read moreRoad to Socialism Includes Criminalizing High Courts
Read moreAs COVID-19 Measures Tighten, Expatriates Leave
Read moreTrump Smelled a Rat, Withdrew Financial Support for Northern Triangle
Read moreNot If but When: Migrant Caravan Is Start of More to Come
Read moreDefeated Marxists Came Out on Top by Rewriting History
Read moreTotalitarians with Reins of Power Threaten the Republic
Read moreA Blue Texas Ensures Democrat Control of Presidency
Read morePublic-Private Partnerships Need Big Deficits for Embattled Regime
Read moreTerrorist Santrich Hides in Venezuela, Marxists Scapegoat His Crimes
Read moreFalse Assurances to Georgia Voters Are a Cynical Power Grab
Read moreIndividual Liberty Hangs by a Thread
Read moreNetwork Trashes Exile Trump Supporters
Read moreTrump Voters Are Key
Read moreMedia War against Trump Threatens the Republic
Read moreAbortion Provider Brings Attention to Hostile NGOs
Read moreFake News the Latest Excuse to Silence Dissent
Read moreRest of America Must Catch Up
Read moreRuling US President Took Effective Steps towards Cuba's Freedom
Read moreThree Steps Towards Socialist Tyranny
Read moreOnly Manipulation Can Hide the Marxism in Biden's Campaign
Read moreUseful-Idiot Socialists Lose if Biden Prevails
Read moreUS-Bound Migration Defied Laws, Medical Concerns
Read moreRising Discontent Reveal Failure of 21st-Century Socialism
Read moreWhat Lies Behind the Media Smokescreen
Read moreDesperate Challenger Cannot Compete on Substance
Read moreFidel Castro's Strategy Has a New Standard-Bearer
Read moreCommunism, Socialism, Chavismo, Putinism Spell the End of Civilized Debate
Read moreSurvival of Constitutional Republic on November Ballot
Read moreTrump-Pence Offer Prosperity; Biden-Harris Offer Socialism
Read moreTrump Reelection Stands in the Way of Enemy Takeover
Read moreHans Magnusson Replaces the Controversial Anders Kompass
Read moreStalled Bill Aims for Foreign Direct Investment
Read moreExcerpt Twenty-Five of Brothers from Time to Time
Read moreHispanic Americans Smell a Rat
Read moreBlack Lives Matter Seeks Power, Not Racial Justice
Read moreNew Book Reveals Truth about Social Justice
Read moreAmericans Support Police and Racial Justice
Read moreConservative Chattering Class Must Listen to Populist Concerns
Read moreRentier, Feudal Mentality Reigns in the Private Sector
Read moreNew Work of Electoral Fiction Mirrors Reality
Read moreBernie Sanders Drives the Bus
Read moreA Clear Choice between American Values and Socialism
Read moreTrump Offers Rule of Law, Biden Offers Destruction
Read moreEstablishing Rule of Law Is Only Remedy for Persecution of Bitkovs
Read morePelosi Allies Want US Policy to Undermine Rule of Law
Read moreCareer Diplomat William Popp to Replace Luis Arreaga
Read moreMarxist Agitators Learn Old Tricks from Cuba's Castro Regime
Read moreSusan Rice Would Be the Stand-In
Read moreEconomic Slowdown, Smuggling, Cocaine Production, Guerrillas, Lawlessness
Read moreLet Us Take Responsibility, Implement a Proven Formula
Read moreA Legal Opinion on the Constitutional Court, Congress, Prosecutor General
Read moreWhat a Cuban's Story Can Teach Us about Tyranny
Read moreUnited States, Guatemala Suffer from Pathological Ideology
Read moreA Biden Victory Would Be a Fidel Castro Victory
Read moreStatement from Liga Pro-Patria, Legal Watchdog
Read moreTony Bryant's Cuban Experience Exposes Hypocrisy of Castro Eulogy
Read moreCompany Seeks $350 Million Compensation for Projects Blocked by Marxists
Read moreConference Preceded Latin America’s Socialist Pink Tide
Read moreLeftist Judiciary Ushers in Tolerance for Violence
Read moreJoe Biden Dangled $1 Billion in Quid Pro Quo
Read moreBiden Carries the Torch for Globalism
Read moreProfile: Ex-Security Minister Genaro García Luna
Read moreHonoring the 35th Anniversary of Guatemala’s Constitution
Read moreRecovery Policies to Enhance Investor, Business Confidence
Read moreIdeological Ally Turns Blind Eye to Castro’s Culpability
Read moreNew Inspector General Opens Window into Deep-State Corruption
Read moreSupport for Cuban Regime Is Red Flag
Read moreCommunists Have Destabilized Our Region, Deserve No Leeway
Read moreWhat Proponents Seek in Expanded State, What Has Flown Under Radar
Read morePandemic Reveals Hollowness of Left-Wing Agitators
Read moreLatin American Exiles Understand Evils of Central Planning
Read moreA US Road to Third-World Status
Read moreCoronavirus Exhibits People Dying for Political Correctness
Read moreShow of Might Brought Tensions to Surface
Read moreOnce Again, Foreign-Funded NGOs Get a Break
Read moreDemocrats Insist on Undermining US President while Touting Chinese Party Line
Read moreMedia, Dem Establishment Falsely Portray Biden as Sane Alternative
Read moreSandinistas Exacerbate Inefficiency, Investment Drought
Read moreDemocratic Party Should Change Name to Socialist Party
Read moreLatin America Tactics Parallel Anti-Trump Crusade
Read moreForeign-Policy Meddling Left Scars in Ukraine, Guatemala
Read moreDefiant Deep State Hard at Work Coopting Guatemala
Read moreThe Cuban, Venezuelan Model Exported
Read moreImpeachment Trial Is Battle in Leftist War to Subvert US Constitution
Read moreExpect No Meaningful Progress until Obama Holdovers Are Gone
Read moreOpen Letter to Congressman to Set Record Straight
Read moreOpportunity to Pull Back Curtain on Corruption Offsets Risks
Read moreLatin Americans in Florida Know the Wreckage They Fled
Read moreViolent Protests Give Way to Plebiscite on New Constitution
Read morePartial Trial Fits Democrat False Narrative
Read moreAsylum Agreement with Guatemala Already Bearing Fruit
Read moreGuatemala, Honduras, El Salvador Should Work with Trump to Attract Investment
Read moreUkraine, Guatemala: Victims of Deceit from So-Called Public Servants
Read moreSocialists Turn Rule of Law into Law of Jungle
Read moreDeep-State Darling Pushes Independent Press to Bankruptcy
Read moreIn-Depth Report Leaves No Doubt of Illegality
Read moreVice President Pence Acknowledges State Department Mutiny
Read moreUS Deep State Continues What Obama, Biden Started
Read moreUkraine, Guatemala Tell the Same Uncle Joe Stories
Read moreRule of Law the Missing Piece to Unlock Growth
Read moreTaxpayer Dollars to Socialist Allies Is Nothing to Write Home About
Read moreOAS Picks Up Where UN Commission Left Off
Read moreGuatemala Must Confront Leftist Meddling
Read moreNarco-State Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
Read moreRule of Law Is Impediment for Leftists at Home and Abroad
Read moreDaniel Ortega Profits from Authoritarianism, Protects Mercantilist Partners in Crime
Read moreVoters Reject Democratic Subversion
Read moreWork Remains to Bring Rule of Law, Development
Read moreEnds Justify Means for Collectivist Domination
Read moreDemocrats Back Candidate to Undermine Trump's Asylum Agreement
Read morePelosi, AOC, Omar Poised to Meddle in Foreign Election
Read moreStolen Presidency Points to Another Nicaragua
Read moreThe Truth about the Meeting That Never Happened
Read moreUS Officials, Corrupt Magistrates Have Jimmy Morales under the Gun
Read moreTrump Should Immediately Remove US Ambassador, Apply Magnitsky Sanctions
Read moreMake Guatemala a Safe Third Country, Remove Corrupt State Department
Read moreBilateral Agreement would significantly Reduce the Flow of Illegal Migrants
Read moreSilent Majority of Guatemalans Must Stand Firm
Read moreTo Avoid Abyss, Neutralize Criminal State Department Bureaucracy
Read moreCICIG Still Looms Large over Rigged Presidential Election
Read moreDemocrats Refuse to Cooperate, Assume Immigration Crisis Will Favor Them in 2020
Read moreThey Face the Same Enemy, Which Uses Dirty Tricks and Is Desperate to Remove them from Power
Read morePresidential Election in Cross Hair of Globalist, Anti-Capitalist Alliance
Read morePresident Trump Could Help Himself and the United States if He Were to Focus on Guatemala now
Read moreLawfare the Globalist Tool for Staging Preferred Candidates
Read moreTrump Must Confront Radical Socialists in Latin America
Read moreAt home and abroad, partisan loyalties conceal illegality
Read moreKick the United Nations Out of New York, Send Them to Tehran
Read moreOpen Letter to Mike Pompeo from Anthony Segura
Read moreOpen Letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Read moreObama policy helps gang members in Guatemala, leads to waves of illegal immigration
Read moreEnvoy Works With Enemies of Trump's Policy
Read moreCarlos Vielmann Is Victim of Desperate Ploy
Read moreObama Apparatchik Still Meddles In, Wants to Run Guatemala
Read moreIt Threatens to Divide Trump against the Allies He Needs to Resolve Illegal Immigration
Read moreTotalitarian Birds of a Feather Flock Together against Individual Rights
Read moreWill Trump, Pompeo Take Charge of US Policy?
Read moreTime to Slay the Beast Once and for All
Read moreUN Commission Way Off Base with Media Intimidation
Read moreRogue Obama Holdovers Attacking Key US Ally
Read moreCICIG: Falling Into a Trap of Its Own Making
Read moreNorthward Migration Signals Scant Investment in Guatemala
Read moreTodd Robinson's Promotion A Red Flag for Democracy
Read moreThe Plight of Anthony Segura Reveals US Embassy Perfidy
Read moreFrom Colombia to Guatemala, UN Commissioner's Marxist Loyalties Supersede the Law
Read moreObama-Backed Judicial Terrorism in Guatemala Sheds Light on US Scandals
Read moreThe CICIG Has Become Exactly What It Was Created to Eliminate
Read moreAttorney-client Privilege Means Nothing If You Oppose CICIG
Read moreUnited States Must Review Policy toward Guatemala
Read moreBroad Coalition Alleges Ideological Justice, Lack of Accountability, Violation of Sovereignty
Read moreMueller Probe Analogous to Guatemala's CICIG
Read moreGuatemalans Must Wake Up to UN-Backed Subversion of Justice
Read moreGuatemala the Key to Law and Order South of the Border
Read moreSecretive Iran Deal Took Priority over Law Enforcement
Read moreGuatemalan Support to Israel Dates to the Latter's Founding
Read moreTransparency, Accountability, Respect for Balanced Governance
Read moreOne for America, One for the Deep State
Read moreAvoiding Subversion in Central America Is a National Security Concern
Read moreThe Political Crisis Stems from the CICIG, Obama Appointees
Read moreThe CICIG Is a Political Weapon, Jimmy Morales Stood in Its Way
Read moreIllegal Constitutional Changes Would Elevate Leftist Judiciary
Read moreStrike the Geopolitical Center and Gateway North
Read moreIncoming Ambassador Must Assess the Wreckage, Cut Ties with Violent Collectivists
Read moreUproot Personnel, Apply the Cuba Reversal to Guatemala
Read moreTrump Can Slay the Demon, Unlock Economic Development
Read moreHouse Resolution on CICIG Conceals the Truth about Guatemala, Aids Violent Leftists
Read moreAtlantic Council Turns Blind Eye to US Support for Criminality in Guatemala
Read moreEnforce Terms of US Aid to Northern Triangle
Read moreShifting Obama Policy in Guatemala Would Improve Poppy Eradication Efforts
Read moreLeave on Your Own Terms before Guatemala Shows You the Door
Read moreUS Ambassador, UN Commissioner Undo Alliance for Prosperity Objectives
Read moreUnusual Case Raises Specter of Muzzling the Opposition
Read moreHeads Must Roll or Illegal Immigration Will Keep Flowing
Read moreThe Hill Overlooks Opportunity to Strike the Root in Guatemala
Read moreLetter from Congressman Fernando Linares Beltranena
Read moreThe rulings of the Constitutional Court to suspend operations of hydroelectric plants and extractive industries are worrisome.
Read moreThe fight against illegal immigration is a fight for the rule of law. The enemy of rule of law in Guatemala is hidden in plain sight, and with a name that belies its true purpose.
Read moreImagine what would happen in Mexico if foreign bureaucrats tried to do what they do here in broad daylight?
Read moreThe Trump administration's temporary travel ban on seven Middle Eastern countries, pending proper vetting, means people intent on doing us harm will look for another way into the United States.
Read moreDonald Trump has taken office, but Barack Obama's agenda continues at a blistering pace in Guatemala. The US ambassador there is leading the charge.
Read moreTaxpayers are on the hook for $750 million annually for five years to Central America, but under current circumstances, US foreign officials will squander the money.
Read moreGuatemala may fly under the radar of US media, but how Donald Trump handles this Central American nation will be crucial to restoring the rule of law on immigration.
Read moreAs soon as Hillary Clinton’s partisans began their campaign to void the presidential election, the United States entered a civil conflict.
Read moreYou’ve already let me know, in countless different ways, what you think of me. My answer to you has been in process for nearly 60 years.
Read moreNow that Fidel Castro has finally done the one thing we all must do, he’s getting the same kinds of notices he got before – like a long-running Broadway show that closes to rave reviews.
Read moreIf you want to see what foreign policy under a President Hillary Clinton would be like, then look to where she has done her business without being observed or constrained.
Read moreNo, you didn’t misread the title. The WikiLeaks dump of many thousands of emails has helped Hillary Clinton’s campaign by removing attention from anything else, except those pronouncements by Donald Trump that the media can latch onto and sensationalize.
Read moreDr. Walid Phares's account of the meeting between Mr. Trump and President Peña Nieto [NER, September 3] puts a frame around matters that's all too rare in our current landscape of media analysis.
Read moreAn English music critic, using all the pleasant contempt to which his station entitled him, once wrote of an Italian tenor in Carmen that the singer’s French pronunciation “has to be heard to be believed.”
Read moreIn an article published by the Atlantic magazine, journalist Alexia Fernández Campbell alleges that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has invited presidential candidate Donald J. Trump to a meeting this week "because he fears a Trump Presidency."
Read moreWhen one country sends an ambassador to another, it is first and last a recognition of sovereignty.
Read moreThree former Obama Secretaries of Defense have recently expressed grave concern that a widespread bias in the nation’s culture has penetrated the Oval Office: the United States now has a commander-in-chief who roundly dislikes the military.
Read moreHow would it be if John F. Kennedy, or his advisors, had decided that the interests of global order were better served by dismissing photographic evidence of Soviet missile emplacements on the island of Cuba — and had made that dismissal the starting-point of a US policy?
Read moreOn March 29, US Secretary of State John Kerry, in a State Department ceremony, conferred one of its International Women of Courage awards on Guatemala’s attorney general, Thelma Aldana.
Read moreMore than a year after resigning as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton telephoned the president of Guatemala and urged him to reappoint a cabinet official who the country’s legally established nominating commission had voted down.
Read moreA number of US observers, including retired military and intelligence officers, have raised the question. They assert that Obama's policy — carried out by the US embassy, by two secretaries of state, and by the first lady herself — embodies the crime of treason.
Read moreIn case you didn't know, Guatemala went through a wrenching year in 2015. Its leaders were deposed and imprisoned on corruption charges. As the Organization of American States and others clearly saw, the literal decapitation of society was part of an attempt to cancel the country's elections.
Read moreUnder pressure from the Barack Obama administration, it will re-start the trial of former President Efraín Ríos Montt, and thereby attempt to blame the country’s misfortunes on a non-existent genocide.
Read moreAll corruption, as Julius Caesar could have written, is divided into three parts. The first of these is the corruption itself, while the other two are the possible ways of redressing it.
Read moreAt the end of November, a curious report appeared in a Guatemalan newspaper. US Ambassador Todd Robinson announced that he intended to seek a commitment from President-elect Jimmy Morales.
Read morePeruvian novelist and Nobel Laureate Marío Vargas Llosa once quipped that the greatest producer of anti-capitalist, anti-US propaganda was none other than the United States.
Read moreGuatemala's political mob, which we call the blob, is once again trying to suffocate the country's new government even before it takes power.
Read moreGuatemala's recent presidential election was far from ordinary. It was shaped by a joint effort between the Barack Obama administration and the United Nations' self-appointed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) to change the country's governing structure.
Read moreFrom his prison cell, Otto Pérez Molina has played cry-baby by telling Russia Today — an odd bedfellow indeed — that the agent of his downfall was none other than the United States, up to its old tricks; and working in this case through the UN commission, the CICIG, a worthy partner in official corruption.
Read moreIn her first round of presidential voting on September 6, Guatemala narrowly avoided a coup d’état which would have cancelled elections and kept them cancelled for a long time.
Read moreThe first round of presidential voting in Guatemala is over, and the surprise winner is … Guatemala itself. The contest between the various...
Read moreGuatemala's congress last night voted to strip President Otto Pérez Molina of his official immunity from charges of involvement in a bribery ring. His former vice president, Roxana Baldetti, is already in prison, where she is awaiting trial on similar charges.
Read moreIn October 2014, the staff of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security sat down for an interview with their "distinguished scholar in residence," Claudia Paz y Paz. Five months earlier, Paz y Paz had left the post of attorney general for Guatemala after failing to win reappointment.
Read moreA few weeks after the attempted assassination of Gilda Aguilar in 2012, a co-author of these articles, Steve Hecht, was invited to meet with Arnold Chacon, the US ambassador to Guatemala. Hecht went to the meeting alongside Professor Armando De la Torre, a dean at Francisco Marroquín University and a columnist for Guatemala’s El Periódico.
Read moreIf you want insights into the history of Claudia Paz y Paz, former attorney general of Guatemala (2010-2014), and what she symbolizes, look no further than the recent six-part series of reports from Steve Hecht and David Landau.
Read moreThe elderly defendant, having been found guilty and sentenced for genocide, stood alone among the spectators. Adrift in a vast public space that was more like an auditorium than a courtroom, the old man wavered about with no one to lean on.
Read moreGilda Aguilar, a prosecuting attorney for Guatemala’s Justice Ministry, was hurrying home to her two teenage daughters. Another attorney, a friend of Gilda's, was driving; and Samuel Gonzales, a young police officer, was her security.
Read moreIn Guatemala, the Justice Ministry and its leader, the attorney general, have a separate place in the constitutional order. For one thing, the attorney general’s term does not coincide with the president’s. The president takes office on January 14 of every year divisible by four (2004, 2008, 2012, etc.); while the attorney general takes office two years later, on May 15.
Read more“Georgetown University is one of the world’s leading academic and research institutions.” That’s how the university describes itself.
But Georgetown’s use of its prestige to elevate Guatemala’s former attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz, to star status raises questions about the direction the university has taken.
The crisis in Venezuela has gradually been seeping into large media outlets in the Unites States and Canada, and earlier this month I had the opportunity to appear on Stossel to explain why the Chavista push for "social justice" has led to nothing short of a nightmare.
Read moreGuatemala's congress last night voted to strip President Otto Pérez Molina of his official immunity from charges of involvement in a bribery ring. His former vice president, Roxana Baldetti, is already in prison, where she is awaiting trial on similar charges.
Read moreThe United States, under President Obama, is helping radical anti-Americans take power in our country.
Read moreFew if any nonprofits have supported my intellectual development to the degree of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS). Nestled on the University of Miami campus, their media footprint, publications, and on-site events demonstrate exemplary productivity.
Read moreEach year the who's who of young libertarian and classical-liberal activists descend on Washington, DC, and they recognize their most successful peers. The highest honor of the 2015 International Students for Liberty Conference, for an individual "alumnus" or role model, went to whistleblower Edward Snowden, but the budding Honduran branch of the international organization garnered victory for the event of the year.
Read moreThe question at the heart of the Ríos Montt trial is a simple and potentially dreadful one: did genocide occur during Guatemala’s internecine conflict?
Read moreTo so many in the Anglosphere, Latin America is a mystery. The barriers of language, religion, and colonial history lead to endless confusion and leave untapped the potential for fruitful relationships.
Read moreGuatemala has lately been a focus of international attention, and the present writers have extensive knowledge of the politics of this country. Even so, we were surprised when we were contacted by a reporter from the McClatchy news organization, which has a wide reach in US news markets.
Read moreIf you were observing US diplomacy in search of the curious – and you had decided to eavesdrop at one of its remotest, least-visited quarters – you would go to the Central American republic of Guatemala, where you would find something quite revealing about the nature of Barack Obama.
Read moreIn late 2011, Guatemala’s powerful attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz, brought criminal charges of genocide against the country’s former leader, General Efrain Rios Montt.
Read moreFor the past year or two, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other diplomats have been hand-holding an attorney general in Guatemala who has twisted the law for political purposes and acted against a constitutional order.
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