The Guatemalan heist threatening US security
Somewhere in Guatemala City, a labor court has decided that a corporate insider is worth more, by the month, than Cristiano Ronaldo, Stephen Curry, and LeBron James combined. Not a typo. According to his own complaint, a former Tigo Guatemala executive wants his severance calculated on an “average monthly salary” of $4.47 million — a figure that would put him among the five highest-paid athletes on the planet, except he never played a professional sport. He ran corporate affairs for a phone company. Guatemala’s judiciary is treating this as a serious legal question. American policymakers should be treating it as a five-alarm fire.
