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Weekly Report - 28 May 2015 (WR-15-21)
GUATEMALA: Pérez Molina – where will it end?
With the dust barely settling on the massive corruption scandal uncovered in the tax authorities (SAT) the previous month which forced out Vice President Roxana Baldetti [WR-15-19], the badly discredited Partido Patriota (PP) government led by President Otto Pérez Molina received another major blow last week. The United Nations (UN)-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) and attorney general’s office (AG) anti-impunity unit (FECI) issued 17 arrest warrants for top officials in relation to alleged corruption which took place in the social security institute (IGSS). The situation facing Pérez Molina – who in a further sign of the rampant corruption afflicting his government was forced to sack three ministers last week over unrelated scandals – is becoming untenable. Those arrested in relation to the IGSS scandal include its president Juan de Dios de la Cruz Rodríguez López, one of Pérez Molina’s closest allies and his former private secretary.
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