• 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.
• November 1, 2016 If 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.
• October 24, 2016 No, 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.
• September 6, 2016 Dr. 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.
• September 4, 2016 An 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.”
• April 21, 2016 Three 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.
• 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.
• 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 24, 2016 Por si acaso usted no lo sabía, Guatemala pasó por grandes aprietos en 2015. Sus líderes fueron destituidos y encarcelados bajo acusaciones de corrupción. Y como vieron claramente la Organización de Estados Americanos y otros entes, la decapitación, literalmente hablando, de la sociedad fue parte de un intento de suspender las elecciones en ese país.
• December 18, 2015 Toda la corrupción, como hubiese escrito Julio César, está dividida en tres partes. La primera es la propia corrupción, mientras que las otras dos son las posibles formas de repararla.
• 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 2, 2015 La mafia política de Guatemala, a la cual llamamos “La Mancha”, está una vez más intentando sofocar al nuevo Gobierno, incluso antes de que este asuma el poder. El pasado 17 de noviembre la nueva ministra de Gobernación, Eunice Mendizábal, designó al capitán retirado Óscar Platero como subdirector de la Dirección General de Inteligencia Civil (Digici).
• 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 Desde su celda en la prisión, el expresidente de Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina ha jugado la carta de llorón al decirle a la cadena Russia Today —un extraño aliado, por cierto— que el responsable de su caída no era otro que Estados Unidos, y sus viejos trucos; y que influyó en su caza a través de la Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala (Cicig) de las Naciones Unidas, una valiosa compañera para la corrupción oficial.
• November 11, 2015 From 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.
• September 29, 2015 En la primera ronda de elecciones presidenciales del pasado 6 de septiembre, Guatemala evitó, por poco, un golpe de Estado que las pudo haber suspendido, y que las hubiesen mantenido suspendidas por un largo tiempo. Con una segunda vuelta prevista para el 25 de octubre, el país ha retrocedido ahora a la relativa comodidad de ser un paraíso para la corrupción, como lo ha sido a lo largo de su historia.
• 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.
• September 2, 2015 El Congreso de Guatemala votó anoche para retirar la inmunidad judicial al presidente Otto Pérez Molina, acusado de estar implicado en una red de sobornos. Su ex vicepresidenta, Roxana Baldetti, ya está en la cárcel, donde se encuentra a la espera de un juicio por cargos similares.
• September 2, 2015 Guatemala’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.
• August 5, 2015 In 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.
