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Caribbean & Central America - September 2016 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUATEMALA: Morales on defensive over spying allegations
This month, President Jimmy Morales sacked the secretary of the state security service (SAAS), Jorge Ignacio López Jiménez and his deputy, César Augusto Sagastume. The dismissals follow allegations made the previous month by the main opposition Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE) party, that SAAS officials had been spying on UNE members, journalists, and human rights activists. The allegations are particularly worrisome for Morales as they also implicate his special advisor, (Ret. Col) Herbert Armando Melgar Padilla, who recently took up a legislative seat for the ruling small, conservative Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) party.
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