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Weekly Report - 11 June 2015 (WR-15-23)
GUATEMALA: Pérez Molina increasingly isolated
Gustavo Martínez, Guatemala’s secretary general of the presidency, announced last week that he was stepping down over corruption allegations. Martínez is one of President Otto Pérez Molina’s closest aides (and his daughter’s fiancé). His departure follows that of a string of other members of Pérez Molina’s inner circle forced out last month over unrelated scandals. These include Martínez’s predecessor Juan de Dios Rodríguez, the former head of the social security institute (IGSS), Vice-President Roxana Baldetti who quit last month over the scandal at the national tax agency (SAT) [WR-15-19] and Interior Minister Mauricio López Bonilla. While this all leaves Pérez Molina looking more and more isolated, the main opposition Libertad Democrática Renovada (Líder) has yet to capitalise ahead of the 6 September general elections as it has been on the defensive over alleged corruption itself.
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