Weekly Report - 19 June 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

The leader of the right-wing opposition Partido Patriota (PP), Otto Pérez Molina, is the latest politician implicated in the financial scandal which broke last week [WR-08-23] and has shaken congress to its core. The PP leader vehemently denies the allegations and accuses President Alvaro Colom of using public institutions for his own political ends, accusations which serve only to undermine further the credibility of the country's institutions.