Bipartisan House Leaders Urge Guatemalan President to Reject Undemocratic NGO Law
February 27, 2020
February 27, 2020
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Rep. Eliot Engel, D-New York, issued the following news release:
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) and Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) sent a letter to Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei urging him to veto legislation passed by his country's congress that threatens to undermine non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and freedom of assembly in Guatemala. The law bears resemblance to a Russian measure regulating NGOs that . . .
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) and Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) sent a letter to Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei urging him to veto legislation passed by his country's congress that threatens to undermine non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and freedom of assembly in Guatemala. The law bears resemblance to a Russian measure regulating NGOs that . . .