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The Center has undertaken a project to monitor the Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH). This project aims聽to analyze the Organization of American States (OAS)-sponsored Mission鈥檚 work and enhanced聽public understanding of the MACCIH and its performance. Under the direction of School of International Service Professor Charles Call and a team of senior researchers, this effort strives to understand MACCIH in the context of anti-corruption and impunity initiatives in Honduras and beyond.

The project delivered聽regular reports, which provide聽updates and analyses of the work of MACCIH that are available online in Spanish and English;聽and analytic papers, beginning with one report that analyzes聽MACCIH鈥檚 first two years of operations, which was presented at聽a public event in Honduras in June 2018 and at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC in July 2018. Sources for these products include聽news articles, tweets, press conferences, as well as private interviews with key informants inside and outside Honduras. Project researchers also engaged independent observers, journalists, and academics; government officials of Honduras, the United States, and other countries; Honduran and U.S.- based non-governmental organizations; and officials of the OAS and MACCIH. The project was funded by Open Society Foundations.

Project lead Professor Call authored a report that examines MACCIH's progress聽and challenges in the past two years since its inception. Halfway through its four-year mandate, MACCIH scored some important successes but confronted聽growing sabotage from segments of Honduras鈥檚 political elite determined to undermine the Mission鈥檚 work. The report was launched in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on June 21, 2018 in front of an audience of nearly 200. The report is available for download in English and Spanish:

• From Steady Progress to Severely Wounded: A Two-Year Report on the Performance of the OAS聽Mission in Support of the Fight Against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH)
• Avances y Desaf铆os: Informe sobre los primeros dos a帽os de la Misi贸n de Apoyo contra la Corrupci贸n y la Impunidad en Honduras (MACCIH)

Throughout the project's duration, the MACCIH Monitor has provided regular, independent analysis of the work of MACCIH, and is available online in English and Spanish:

• The MACCIH Monitor, Issue 1, November 21, 2017 (English)
• El Monitor de MACCIH, N煤mero 1, el 21 de聽noviembre del 2017 (贰蝉辫补帽辞濒)
• The MACCIH Monitor, Issue 2, January 31, 2018 (English)
• El Monitor de MACCIH, N煤mero 2, el 31 de聽enero del 2018 (贰蝉辫补帽辞濒)
• The MACCIH Monitor, Issue 3, March 22, 2018 (English)
• El Monitor de MACCIH, N煤mero 3, el 22 de聽marzo del 2018 (贰蝉辫补帽辞濒)
• The MACCIH Monitor, Issue 4, May 18, 2018 (English)
• The MACCIH Monitor, Issue 5, August 30, 2018 (English)
• El Monitor de MACCIH, N煤mero 5, el 30 de agosto del 2018 (Spanish)
• El Monitor de MACCIH, Edici贸n Especial, el 9 de enero del 2019 (Spanish)听

Corruption in Honduras: Can MACCIH Make a Dent?

July 31, 2018

In partnership with the Inter-American Dialogue and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), CLALS held聽an event at the Dialogue to assess the past progress and future prospects in combating corruption and impunity in Honduras.聽SIS Professor and project lead Chuck Call opened the event with a summary of the Center's recent report on the first two years of MACCIH. The event continued with interventions from Luis Santos, Head of Special Attorney's Unit Against Impunity and Corruption (UFECIC), and Ana Mar铆a Calder贸n Boy, Coordinator of MACCIH's Division of Prevention and Combating of Corruption. Adriana Beltr谩n of WOLA moderated the lively discussion, which was attended by over 100 people. Watch a聽recording of the event.

Dos a帽os de la MACCIH: Avances y desaf铆os

June 21, 2018

CLALS and the Universidad Tecnol贸gica Centroamericana (UNITEC) hosted a public event to present a two-year report, authored by SIS Professor and project lead Charles Call, on the MACCIH's progress and challenges faced聽in an increasingly polarized聽atmosphere in Honduras. After opening remarks from CLALS' Eric Hershberg and UNITEC's Marlon Brev茅, Professor Call summarized the report for an audience of nearly 150. Afterwards, panelists from various sectors of Honduran civil society elaborated on the report's findings and discussed anti-corruption initiatives in a wider context. The panelists included:聽Ana Mar铆a Calder贸n Boy, Interim Spokesperson for MACCIH; Yahv茅 Sabill贸n, Congressperson(LIBRE)听and Leader of the Congressional Front in support of MACCIH (FPAM); Odir Fern谩ndez, Head of the Investigative Unit in the National Anti-Corruption Council (CNA); and Gabriela Blen, Leader of the "Indignados" Movement and Founder of the Student Anti-Corruption Group (CEA). Watch a recording of the event.

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