List of Guatemala articles
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Police frisk alleged members of the MS-13 gang during a visit of participants in the Meeting of Best Practices on Peace Processes, Community Building, Intervention and Reintegration organized by the OAS in Ilopango, El Salvador on September 20, 2012. AFP PHOTO/ Jose CABEZAS (Photo credit should read Jose CABEZAS/AFP/Getty Images) Central America’s Gangs Are All Grown Up
And more dangerous than ever.
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter looks on as fake dollar notes fly around him, thrown by a British comedian during a press conference at the FIFA world-body headquarter's on July 20, 2015 in Zurich. The 79-year-old Swiss official looked shaken as the notes thrown by Simon Brodkin, stagename Lee Nelson, fluttered around him in a conference hall at the FIFA headquarters. Brodkin was taken away in a Swiss police car after the stunt. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images) The Worst Corruption Scandals of 2015
A number of corruption scandals exploded in 2015. FP looks back at some of the most egregious.
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GettyImages-486344918_960 It’s Time for the U.S. to Tackle Corruption in Central America
Last year the United States took an important step toward helping the region clean up its bad actors. Now it needs to follow through.
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A new report from the U.N.’s refugee agency sheds light on Central America’s worsening gang violence and the refugee crisis it has created.
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Demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Juan Orlando Hernandez over an ongoing corruption scandal demonstrate in Tegucigalpa on August 28, 2015. The demonstrators, known as "indignados" -- the indignant ones -- march with torches demanding the creation of an anti-corruption commission and calling for Hernandez to go while rejecting any dialogue with him. AFP PHOTO/ STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) Honduras’s Aborted Mission for Political Reform
Restive Hondurans fear a historic opportunity for groundbreaking political change is about to pass them by.
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GettyImages-484017304 Down With Otto!
Guatemala's president has been sent to jail amid allegations of massive corruption, flinging the country into uncharted territory as it prepares for Sunday's elections.
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Guatemala's former Vice-President Roxana Baldetti (C) and her husband Mariano Paz (C, right) arrive in court in Guatemala City on June 22, 2015. Baldetti will appeal against the embargo of three of her properties and to justify the origin of her assets and possessions. Guatemala has been in political upheaval since the UN commission began publishing its findings on the customs fraud scheme, leading to the resignation of Baldetti in May. In the past weeks, demonstrators have been staging protests calling for President Otto Perez to resign after a series of high-level corruption scandals. AFP PHOTO / JOHAN ORDONEZ (Photo credit should read JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images) Are We Witnessing a Central American Spring?
Frustration over rampant corruption in Guatemala and Honduras may have finally lit the fuse in countries long accustomed to sleaze and scandal.
