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Weekly Report - 23 May 2024 (WR-24-20)
GUATEMALA: Another minister sees the door
Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo has sacked his communications & infrastructure minister (CIV), Jazmín de la Vega. She becomes the second minister to see the door since his left-of-centre government took office in mid-January after Environment Minister María José Iturbide was dismissed last month [WR-24-14]. As with Iturbide, whose departure followed reports her daughter had used ministry vehicles for her personal use, President Arévalo, who won the August 2023 run-off on the pledge to take on the ‘pacto de corruptos’ network of institutional corruption, is trumpeting De la Vega’s exit as the latest sign of efforts to make good on this anti-impunity promise.
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