“How many cases of corruption have I been accused in?” said Giammattei defiantly, blaming the suspicions around him on social media. “It’s been called a choice by default,” said Tiziano Breda, a Central America analyst for the International Crisis Group. But what could become a liability for Democrats in next year’s mid-term elections is seen differently in Central America. “For our countries, migration is a solution, not a problem,” said Helen Mack, president of the Myrna Mack Foundation in Guatemala. Little of that aid goes directly to Central American governments, and the Biden administration has indicated that due to corruption, that share is likely to decline even further.

Source: The Guardian June 13, 2021 09:56 UTC