made allegations to Thompson,
and retirement benefits. Commencing                 then CEO, that Fields, by now titled TPC’s
after the ten-year term, his retirement             President, had sexually harassed them by
benefits included a $2,000/week payment,            creating a hostile work environment. On
the continued use of the credit card, the           August 13, Thompson telephoned Fields,
continued use of the two cars (with a new           who was vacationing with his family, and
car every sixth year, instead of everyhas what it takes to be president.

Why Guatemala elected a comedian

Guatemala is one of Latin America's poorer countries. It's also a haven for drug traffickers and has the world's fifth-highest homicide rate (per UN data). But it's very, very hard for the country to make progress on these issues when its leaders routinely collude with cartels and steal from public funds.

"A series of corrupt presidents have left the Guatemalan institutions — and particularly its judiciary — broken, corrupted and dependent on the executive," Manfredo Marroquín, the head of Transparency International Guatemala, told scholar Christopher Sabatini for the site Latin America Goes Global. Marroquín calls addressing this corruption "the greatest challenge in Guatemala today."

It's so bad, in fact, that the UN stepped in to help deal with it. In