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    Guatemala's president is dismantling the UN anti-corruption group that is investigating him

    by Kate Linthicum and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Sep 06, 2018 4 minutes

    MEXICO CITY - For the last 12 years, a radical experiment has been playing out in Guatemala.

    A United Nations-backed commission has investigated hundreds of cases of corruption, drug trafficking and even genocide, probing the misconduct of political leaders, drug lords and others who had long been viewed as above the law.

    It has been a radical shift for a country long known for its weak institutions and still scarred by civil war.

    The group, known as the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, has been hailed as one of the most effective anti-crime efforts in Latin America, a region where corruption

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