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The good news is the perception as well as the reality is improving in some areas of the country. Just 12 out of 384 metropolitan areas ended 2009 with more jobs than they had at the beginning of the year, but more recently, the numbers have been looking better. Over...
U.S. prosecutors portray Portillo, 58, as a man ready to exploit his presidency for illicit gain from the moment he took office. Preet Bharara, a U.S. attorney in Manhattan, says Portillo turned "the Guatemalan presidency into his personal ATM." Guatemalan media, quoting Guatemalan government sources, have reported that Portillo's...
Portillo faces a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted. Under the judges' Wednesday order, he could be tried first in Guatemala on related embezzlement and laundering charges. He had originally been extradited to Guatemala in 2008 from Mexico, where he had gone to live after leaving office under...
CICIG's presence is an indication of how dysfunctional police and judicial institutions are in Guatemala, where an astonishing 96.5% of crimes are never solved. The country's murder rate is eight times that of the U.S. - a plague that was underscored on Wednesday when Portillo's extradition hearing was...
One of the uglier ironies of Portillo's case is that he was elected in 1999 largely by promising to stand up for Guatemala's poor, especially its majority indigenous Maya. To have allegedly pinched millions in foreign aid intended for low-income students' textbooks - in a country that has...