Pérez Molina Indicates Corruption in Customs Offices in Guatemala

The Guatemalan President lamented the existence of a legal difficulty in dismissing middle managers who benefit from the institutional protection of unions.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

President Otto Perez Molina told Lahora.com.gt that "... there have been changes in personnel in strategic locations and 'its about making a change ...There are unions and workers who are already permanent, it really becomes an ordeal; I think the best thing is that control systems do not allow discretion and prevent corruption. '"

"...Vice president Roxana Baldetti said individuals serving in middle management positions, who are most often in category 011, are also often much more protected by unions and 'when one wants to move them will say they are 011 and the union comes out to fight for them' therefore in her opinion what is needed is to try to make agreements with the unions themselves to help clean up the institutions. "

"...During a radio interview, Baldetti said that the issue of customs is 'difficult', she said that the structure within customs is almost 'ancestral' because middle managers do not move,' governments come and governments go, but middle managers are always there, because they are a well-organized structure, where it is not known exactly who they are. '"

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