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Weekly Report - 11 December 2014 (WR-14-49)
GUATEMALA: Pérez Molina provokes the private sector
The approval of the State budget is traditionally a thorny issue in Guatemala. However the ease with which this year’s was approved – following a deal between President Otto Pérez Molina’s right-wing Partido Patriota (PP) and the main opposition Libertad Democrática Renovada (Líder) - has aroused suspicion not just from civil society groups but also the private sector. The latter has been particularly irate over the inclusion of three new taxes affecting the telecoms, mining and construction sectors, serving as a new source of tension with the PP government ahead of next year’s general elections.
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