Weekly Report - 18 August 2016 (WR-16-32)

President Jimmy Morales last week sent down a tax reform to the 158-member unicameral congress as part of efforts to boost Guatemala’s notoriously low tax take (which reached just 10.1% of GDP in 2015). President Morales remains under intense pressure to raise revenue in the face of continued unrest from teachers and health-care-sector workers who are calling on the small, conservative Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) government to increase public sector spending [WR-16-29].