LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 28 September 2018

* Guatemala’s electoral authority (TSE) has announced it will cancel the legal status of the small opposition Encuentro por Guatemala (EG) party. The move is in line with an investigation by the attorney general’s office (AG) and the United Nations (UN) backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) announced in August. The investigation found that EG’s secretary general, deputy Nineth Montenegro (whose immunity from prosecution the AG and Cicig have called to be lifted), had failed to present timely reports on the party’s financial statements corresponding to the last semester of the electoral campaign of 2015. This prevented the TSE, which has similarly called for the ruling  Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) to lose its legal status for alleged irregular campaign financing, from establishing with certainty the provenance of at least Q1.74m (US$226,000). Additionally, Cicig and the AG questioned Q76,784 in funds from Maxima Financial and Investment Services and Q197,500 from Publicidad Avance SA received by the EG from previous electoral campaigns.

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