Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei criticized the country's best-known graft prosecutor for what he said was a left-wing politicization of the fight against corruption, a view at odds with strong U.S. backing for his work
GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemala’s President Alejandro Giammattei criticized the country’s best-known graft prosecutor for what he said was a left-wing politicization of the fight against corruption, a view at odds with strong U.S. backing for his work.
He said he would ask Harris to channel rural support via the World Food Program and the government. Much U.S. aid currently goes to non-governmental projects. “Everybody has a right to their own ideology,” Giammattei said, stressing that the attorney general’s office was independent of the executive. “The problem is when you transfer that ideology to your actions, and worse when you are in charge of justice.”
Sandoval was among the prosecutors involved in the case. Giammattei was eventually acquitted. He denies wrongdoing.Giammattei’s views reflect ideological faultlines stemming back to the country’s civil war. Some other conservative Guatemalans believe CICIG and its allies in the justice system, civil society and Congress were seeking to steer the country to the left without winning elections. CICIG departed Guatemala in 2019.
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