A United Nations-backed effort to tamp out corruption, the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), was also abruptly shuttered in 2022 after a government backlash.

Both corruption cases were uncovered with the help of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a body created by the United Nations in agreement with Guatemala to stamp ...

Efforts to implement reforms do exist. In 2006, civil society organizations pushed the government and the United Nations to establish the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) ...