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When he was President of Guatemala, from 2000 to 2004, Alfonso Portillo promised a crusade against one of the Central American country's biggest scourges: corruption. "Corruption and impunity are part of the perverse way our political, economic and social systems function," Portillo said in 2002. A year later, he even proposed letting the U.N. establish a commission in Guatemala to help the country?s fledgling judicial institutions root out the sleaze...
...Portillo's extradition to the U.S. on charges that he laundered tens of millions of dollars that he had embezzled while he was President, including $2.5 million in donations from the Taiwanese government that was meant for children's schoolbooks. Portillo, who was captured by authorities in January near Guatemala's Caribbean coast days after a U.S. indictment was handed down, denies the accusations and calls them a political witch hunt by the U.S. and U.N. But to analysts like Joseph Tulchin, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington and author of Combating Corruption in Latin...
...given time, you’ll see Jim in Guatemala vetting work for Panama, translating work and also coordinating things in Boston,” says Claret M. Vargas ’96, a third-year Law School student and co-president of HLS Advocates for Human Rights. “He has boundless energy and yet never makes you feel guilty in terms of how much work he does...
PBHA Vice President Christopher J. Loney ’11 said the organization was looking to expand upon this year’s initiatives, which included Habitat for Humanity trips to Guatemala and New Orleans, after school programs, and work with the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter...
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