Latin America
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The leading candidate in Guatemala’s presidential elections has been eliminated on an administrative technicality in the latest sign of how the country’s deeply entrenched corruption networks leverage the judicial system to crush opponents. Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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The U.S. special envoy to Haiti has resigned after just a few months on the job, citing the Biden administration’s “inhumane” and “counterproductive” deportation of Haitians to the crisis-wracked island nation… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The operators of purported luxury development Sanctuary Belize will have to pay more than $120 million in addition to facing bans from certain business sectors after a Maryland federal judge ruled Friday that they had run a real estate scam that swindled American consumers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Tuesday that it has opened a probe in response to petitions from U.S.-based metal producers that alleged potentially unfair practices in the aluminum trade involving 18 countries from across the globe… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 