Guatemala

The Fight for Accountability and the Rule of Law

Bibliographic Data

ID6380628
AuthorsKevin Pallister (0000-0001-9303-7838, Bridgewater College, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume37
Issue2
Pages471-492
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista de ciencia política (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0716-1417 • E-ISSN: 0718-090X
PublisherSciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4067/s0718-090x2017000200471
OpenAlexW2766879635
SCIELO_PIDS0718-090X2017000200471
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Guatemala's political system has been shaken by corruption scandals over the past two years. In large part, the country's political system has been consumed by efforts to fight impunity for corruption and human rights abuses. In 2015 voters elected Jimmy Morales to the presidency on an anti-corruption platform, hopeful for change from a political outsider. Throughout 2016 some advances were achieved in the fight against corruption, and prosecutors won several high-profile convictions for human rights violations that occurred during the country's civil war. But organized criminal networks continued to operate in the country, posing serious challenges to the rule of law, and both the Morales administration and the new Congress displayed some of the same shortcomings as previous governments

Accountability · Administration (probate law · Democracy · Human rights · Impunity · Language change · Political corruption · Political science · Political system · Politics · Presidency · Rule of law · Canadian Policy and Governance · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Global Financial Regulation and Crises · Law

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