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Weekly Report - 26 May 2016 (WR-16-20)
GUATEMALA: Morales tested over corruption
President Jimmy Morales is facing one of the first major tests of his anti-corruption pledge since his small conservative Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) government took office in January. Last week Prosecutor General María Eugenia Villagrán resigned after receiving death threats in relation to various corruption cases uncovered by the attorney general’s office and the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig). Chief of these is an investigation revealed last month into a 25-year contract awarded to the local branch of a Spanish company, Terminal de Contenedores Barcelona (TCB), to operate the container terminal at Puerto Quetzal (TCQ) in Escuintla department [WR-16-15]. A private meeting between Morales and representatives from the Danish-headquartered multinational logistics company Maersk, which last year acquired the contract in question, has raised some uncomfortable questions for the new President.
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