LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 17 October 2018

* Guatemala’s 158-member unicameral national legislature has voted not to strip President Jimmy Morales of his immunity from prosecution in order to be investigated for illegal campaign financing involving the ruling Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) party in the 2015 general election. This is the third time that the legislature - which voted by 79 in favour of the President preserving his immunity - has opted to protect the president following similar votes in September 2017. The vote had followed the 22 August approval by Guatemala’s supreme court (CSJ) of a request put forward by the attorney general’s office (AG) and the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) in line with a new complaint received by the AG back in February, which argued that, in his capacity as FCN-Nación party secretary general, Morales had failed to report some Q7.9m (US$1.05m) in funds.

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