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The Amazing Case That Proved Latin America's Crackdown on Corruption Is For Real

By Brian Winter

If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere.

This article is adapted from our 1st print issue of 2016. For a look at our Top 5 Corruption Busters special feature, click here.

Guatemala? Really?

I confess — that was my reaction when Guatemala went further than any other country in the anticorruption crackdown now sweeping Latin America.

It’s one thing for Brazil or Chile, with a longer history of strong institutions, to investigate the powerful and put them in jail. But Guatemala? A country that just 20 years ago...

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