This could get ugly in Guatemala...or another wasted game-changer?

Marguerite Cawley has the write-up on Following Outcry, Guatemala Suspends Election of High Court Judges.

Guatemala's Constitutional Court (CC) has suspended the election of high court magistrates, following outcry from judicial officials over corruption in the selection process -- a positive move toward reform, but one that could still be derailed. 

Gloria Porras, the interim president of the CC, said in an October 9 press conference that the body would temporarily grant five appeals made for the nullification of the process by civil society organizations and a lawyer, reported Prensa Libre. This decision, which saw just one opposing vote, will suspend the congressional agreements via which 13 Supreme Court and 126 appellate court judges were selected and keep the selected candidates from assuming their posts until the CC has made a final decision. 

Go read the entire thing. It continues to amaze me that certain individuals and groups in Guatemala continue to thumb their nose at the rule of law when the eyes of the world have been on this small country. Whether is was the political violence of the 1970s and 1980s, the call for implementing the Peace Accords in the 1990s and 2000s, or prosecuting human rights violators and other criminal networks in the 2000s and 2010s, they simply go about their business as victims of some global conspiracy.