Mike Allison

The fail­ure to tack­le cor­rup­tion and in­se­cu­ri­ty un­der­mines the rul­ing par­ty’s so­cial pro­grammes.

The law has al­ways been used to pro­tect the pow­er­ful in Guatemala.

The US gov­ern­ment needs to re­vamp its strat­e­gy of curb­ing im­mi­gra­tion from Cen­tral Amer­i­ca.

In­se­cu­ri­ty, so­cial un­rest and lack of le­gal se­cu­ri­ty have been the hall­mark of 2013 for Guatemala.

In de­scrib­ing the Guatemalan civ­il war, me­dia re­ports of­ten omit im­por­tant con­text and down­play the US role.

An in­ter­na­tion­al com­mis­sion against im­puni­ty could low­er sky-high mur­der rates and thwart graft in Hon­duras.

Trevi­no’s ar­rest doesn’t mean drug re­lat­ed vi­o­lence in Mex­i­co is over.

Al­though a re­cent truce be­tween ri­val gangs in Hon­duras won’t pro­vide a panacea to the vi­o­lence, it’s a good first step.

Efrain Rios Montt be­comes the first head of state tried and con­vict­ed of geno­cide in a do­mes­tic court.

The US is in no place to lec­ture the peo­ple of Mex­i­co and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca on democ­ra­cy and hu­man rights, writes au­thor.