Weekly Report - 13 December 2012 (WR-12-49)

President Otto Pérez Molina might have succeeded where his predecessors failed vis-à-vis the notoriously thorny issue of tax reform [WR-12-08], but he has met with less success in his efforts to win over the recalcitrant conservative elite with regard to another priority – rural development. His recent calls for the urgent approval of a 2009 bill on rural development, a longstanding demand of the marginalised indigenous sector and considered key to addressing Guatemala’s notorious levels of inequality, food insecurity and poverty, might have raised eyebrows. His government’s continued efforts to boost the mining sector - an equally longstanding indigenous complaint - are proving less surprising.

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