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Caribbean & Central America - April 2014 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUATEMALA: Portillo finally admits guilt
Last month former president Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004) admitted having received US$2.5m in bribes from Taiwan while in office. Portillo made the admission as part of a guilty plea in the US, where he was extradited in May 2013 to face money laundering charges – becoming the first former Guatemalan president to be tried in another country. Portillo’s guilty plea again raises questions about his acquittal in 2011 by a Guatemalan court for other corruption charges – one of the biggest setbacks to the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala [RC-11-06] since it began its mandate in 2007.
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