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Is Russia interfering in Guatemala’s anti-corruption commission? The real story might surprise you.

On April 27, the U.S. Congress’s Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, held a hearing about alleged Kremlin pressures on the United Nations Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a hybrid legal body that investigates and tries high-level corruption cases.

Rachel A. Schwartz is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.