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Former Guatemalan dictator Ríos Montt to be tried for genocide
Central America was a rough neighborhood during the Cold War. And Guatemala, with a civil war that essentially began with the overthrow of elected president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (with U.S. support) in...
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Ríos Montt found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity, sentenced to 80...
It’s hard to know exactly what to think, but I certainly didn’t expect former Guatemalan president Efraín Ríos Montt to be treated so harshly by a tribunal in his own country. Tonight brings word that...
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Unaccompanied minors? Blame a century of US Central American policy.
At a panel discussion at the Woodrow Wilson International Center with three Central American foreign ministers, moderator Steve Inskeep, the host of NPR’s Morning Edition, began the hourlong talk...
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Guatemala lifts Pérez Molina’s immunity six days before vote to replace him
Photo credit to Quetzalvision. Six days before Guatemalans go to the polls to choose a successor to president Otto Pérez Molina, the country’s congress voted to strip the term-limited incumbent of his...
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Three days before elections, Pérez Molina resigns after arrest warrant issued
Within 48 hours of the decision of Guatemala’s Congress to lift president Otto Pérez Molina’s immunity form prosecution, the former army general met with charges of bribery and tax evasion and was...
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Yes, progress in Central America, but don’t call it ‘spring’
Photo credit to AFP. I write for The National Interest on Friday that, despite the progress among civil society groups in Guatemala and Honduras and the resignation of Guatemala’s president Otto Pérez...
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Torres edges Baldizón into Guatemalan runoff with Morales
It was already tumultuous and historic week in Guatemala. The country’s congress, after months of protest, stripped a sitting president of his immunity from prosecution. That president, Otto Pérez...
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The contour of Guatemala’s new Congress? Very conservative.
Even before the final, official vote count is announced in Guatemala’s presidential election, we already know the results of the other major election that took place on September 6 — for the 158...
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Polls give Morales a lock on Guatemala’s presidential runoff
Jimmy Morales, a former comic actor and a populist, anti-corruption candidate, should easily become Guatemala’s next president. (Facebook) He is in many ways an accidental man of the moment, the man...
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Morales easily wins Guatemala’s presidency
As expected, former comic actor Jimmy Morales won Guatemala’s presidential runoff Sunday, besting former first lady Sandra Torres by a margin of more than two-to-one. Riding a wave of widespread...
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A populist, nationalist neophyte rises in the Americas
A popular figure from television and a neophyte to national politics rides a wave of populist protest against corruption, incompetence and the status quo to the top of the polls. First, he co-opts the...
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