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Legal Certainty: What are Investors asking for?
A few weeks before the new magistrates of the Constitutional Court take office in Guatemala, the business sector is asking that the new members of the highest court advocate for a real rule of law and provide legal certainty to investments.
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 In recent years, Guatemala s Constitutional Court (CC) has gained prominence in the country s economic sphere, as its rulings have affected different investments that were already operating locally.
The suspension of
differentiated salaries and suspension of benefits for
companies that were affected by the pandemic, are some of the examples of how the highest court of the country has gained prominence.
The Other Americans: Biden Ends Controversial Asylum Agreements
The new administration has vowed to âaddress root causes that compel individuals to migrate.â
The Biden Administration has suspended the controversial Asylum Cooperation Agreements signed between the Trump Administration and the governments of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. The move is part of the administrationâs rejection of Trumpâs hardline anti-immigration policies.
By the time that the agreement was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump Administration had deported 939 Hondurans and Salvadorans to Guatemala.
âThe United States has suspended and initiated the process to terminate the Asylum Cooperative Agreements with the Governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as the first concrete steps on the path to greater partnership and collaboration in the region laid out by President Biden,â Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a press stateme
“It is not going to bring my husband back, but I feel satisfied.”
Transnational mining corporations, most of them Canadian, their personnel, and state security forces have been accused by human rights groups of a litany of abuses in Central America, including the killings of mine opponents.
Prosecutions are rare, and criminal convictions of mining company personnel are almost unheard of in the region. Patricia Quinto, who represented Choc, a joint plaintiff in the trial, said that the verdict set an important precedent in the country.
“The judge noted mining companies have generated conflicts,” said Quinto.
At the time of the killing, the Fenix mining project was owned by Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals, which faced opposition from local Indigenous communities to plans to reopen the mine. The company faces ongoing civil lawsuits in Canada related to violence against Indigenous residents, including Ich’s killing.