LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 10 October 2018

* Leopoldo Guerra, the director of the citizen’s registry unit of Guatemala’s supreme electoral court (TSE), has announced the start of the process for cancelling the legal status of two small opposition political parties in relation to alleged illegal campaign financing - Unión del Cambio Nacional (UCN) and Encuentro por Guatemala (EG). According to the local press, the UCN is losing its legal status due to anomalies to the tune of more than Q21m (US$2.7m) in its financial records for 2014 and 2015. Meanwhile EG failed to establish with certainty the provenance of at least Q1.74m (US$226,000) from the 2015 electoral campaign. Additionally, the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) and the attorney general’s office (AG) have questioned Q76,784 in funds received by EG from Maxima Financial and Investment Services and Q197,500 from Publicidad Avance SA from previous electoral campaigns.

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