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Caribbean & Central America - May 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUATEMALA: Ruling party in tatters following corruption crackdown
With less than four months to go until Guatemala’s general elections, President Otto Pérez Molina’s right-wing Partido Patriota (PP) government is facing a major political crisis. This, following the exposure of a contraband ring discovered at the national tax agency, Superintendencia de Adminitración Tributaria (SAT), last month that was allegedly headed up by none other than Juan Carlos Monzón Rojas, the private secretary to (the now former) vice-president, Roxana Baldetti. The fruit of an investigation by the United Nations (UN)-backed international commission against impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) and attorney general (AG)’s office that began in May 2014, the case forced Baldetti to resign while the PP’s presidential candidate, Alejandro Sinibaldi, along with other national and local PP politicians, have also jumped ship.
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