Caribbean & Central America - December 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)

President Otto Pérez Molina promulgated in November a law against illicit enrichment and corruption. Approved by the 158-member unicameral legislature at the end of October, the bill had been ten years in the pipeline and stuck in congress since March. While Pérez Molina was quick to trumpet the law as evidence of his government’s commitment to clamping down on corruption, its approval came days after the unusually swift ratification of the state budget, which aroused transparency concerns.

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