President Donald Trump, whose administration helped Morales dismantle CICIG. Velásquez had a reputation for jailing presidents and paramilitaries, but met his match when he went after Jimmy Morales, a television comedian who was elected president in 2015. Its mandate was to root out corruption and improve the lives of Guatemalans so they wouldn’t feel compelled to leave their homes. In the early 2000s, Velásquez was tasked with running an international anti-corruption commission in Guatemala, known by its Spanish acronym, CICIG. Then Reveal’s Anayansi Diaz-Cortes introduces us to a crusading prosecutor named Iván Velásquez. policy during the Cold War and its support of brutal dictatorships in Guatemala that were plagued by corruption.
We then connect the migration outflow to U.S. to help support families struggling with poverty. For decades, residents have been migrating to the U.S. Veteran radio journalist Maria Martin takes us to Huehuetenango, a province near Guatemala’s border with Mexico. This week’s show looks at the root causes of corruption and impunity in Guatemala and how they have prompted generations of Guatemalans to flee their country and migrate north. has had a corrupting influence on Guatemalan politics at others, it has supported transparency. José Rubén Zamora was jailed last summer after his newspaper, elPeriódico, published more than 100 stories about corruption within Guatemala’s government.Ĭorruption is a longstanding problem in Guatemala, and it’s intertwined with U.S. Reveal revisits a story produced in collaboration with a Guatemalan journalist who is now in prison.
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