• June 19, 2017 Ignorance of history may doom us to repeat the mistakes of the past, but that truism alone doesn’t attract each generation to learn the lessons of their ancestors. As social […]
• June 16, 2017 Trump Can Slay the Demon, Unlock Economic Development
• May 24, 2017 Atlantic Council Turns Blind Eye to US Support for Criminality in Guatemala
• April 26, 2017 US Ambassador, UN Commissioner Undo Alliance for Prosperity Objectives
• March 30, 2017 Unusual Case Raises Specter of Muzzling the Opposition
• March 25, 2017 Heads Must Roll or Illegal Immigration Will Keep Flowing
• March 14, 2017 Letter from Congressman Fernando Linares Beltranena
• February 17, 2017 Imagine what would happen in Mexico if foreign bureaucrats tried to do what they do here in broad daylight?
• January 23, 2017 Donald Trump has taken office, but Barack Obama’s agenda continues at a blistering pace in Guatemala. The US ambassador there is leading the charge.
• December 20, 2016 Guatemala 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.
• April 4, 2016 On 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.
• April 4, 2016 More 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.
• February 9, 2016 A 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.
• January 25, 2016 In 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.
• January 6, 2016 Under 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.
• December 18, 2015 All 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.
• December 16, 2015 At 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.
• December 2, 2015 Guatemala’s political mob, which we call the blob, is once again trying to suffocate the country’s new government even before it takes power.
• November 11, 2015 Guatemala’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.
• September 29, 2015 In 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.
