So how did year two turn out Mr. President?

President Otto Perez Molina's state of the nation address was overshadowed by the attack against his vice president. I'm not sure why the push back against calling it an assault or an attack. Here was a sitting vice president hit by an unknown substance (flour, lime, whatever). The people who orchestrated the attack in the name of freedom of expression are responsible for distracting attention away from what the president was reporting on. Unfortunately, it's now turning into a circus with the President cancelling his trip to Davos.

Water & Politics gives a first hand account of what went down at the theater (the people nearby thought it was flour) and also links to Plaza Publica's analysis of the president's "accomplishments."

Ricardo Barrientos gives his take on year two in Guatemalan President’s Mid-term Exam: A Failing Grade? for American University's AULA Blog. The AULA blog has some good academic coverage of what is going on in Latin America. You should check it out every so often.

See El Periodico for more reactions ranging from why would you have ever expected the president to highlight the negatives (Alejos) to we don't believe anything he said (Pinzon).

I gave my recap of year two in 2013: A democratic setback in Guatemala. It was a bad year for Guatemala even if the country's murder rate was slightly lower (one of the few positives).