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Future Generations Are Inheriting an Impossible Burden
Guatemala the Key to Law and Order South of the Border
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Young Americans Misguidedly Champion Redistribution, Regulation
Guatemalan Support to Israel Dates to the Latter’s Founding
The Pitfalls, Limits of Data Come to the Fore
12 States Pass Constitutional Carry, Thanks to Targeted Activism
Enforce Terms of US Aid to Northern Triangle
Shifting Obama Policy in Guatemala Would Improve Poppy Eradication Efforts
US Ambassador, UN Commissioner Undo Alliance for Prosperity Objectives
The Hill Overlooks Opportunity to Strike the Root in Guatemala
The 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.
The 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.
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.
In 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.\”
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.
A 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.
If 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.
For 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.