LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 19 February 2019

* The women’s union Federación Sindical de Mujeres de Guatemala (FSMG) and Manfredo Marroquín, the director of Acción Ciudadana (the Guatemalan chapter of Transparency International) have publicly criticised Guatemala’s suspension from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EISI), a global standard for promoting good governance of oil, gas, and mineral resources. EISI suspended Guatemala over its failure to publish transparency reports for 2016 and 2017. Guatemala’s national labour commission for extractive industry companies held an extraordinary meeting on 13 February in which they approved two reports that should have been published by 31 December 2018, hoping that EISI’s decision would be reversed. However, for the time being, the suspension remains in place. The reports also recommend government, civil society, and extractive industry companies draw up the report for 2018-2019 before the end of the year to be presented in 2020. Marroquín declared that the failure to complete the reports on time shows that there continues to be a tendency towards greater corruption and institutional fragility in Guatemala.

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