That would suggest the Trump administration, in its crusade to deter migration, would intensify efforts to fight graft and impunity there. Not coincidentally, she was the only leading candidate who had given full-throated backing to the anticorruption commission. Ms. Aldana, facing death threats at home, has fled to the United States, where she applied for asylum this month. In Guatemala, rumors are rife that Ms. Aldana might be arrested by U.S. immigration agents and deported back to her home country. She, like efforts to establish the rule of law in Guatemala, needs and deserves the United States’ protection and support.

Source: Washington Post July 14, 2019 22:18 UTC