Anticorruption campaigns brought down several high-profile politicians in Latin America in 2015, and perhaps chief among them was Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina.
Pressure grew on Perez Molina to resign as business and government offices closed, protesters marched, and the attorney general's office urged him to step down to prevent ungovernability that could destabilize the nation, according to the Associated Press.
After widespread protests and condemnation, including from the Guatemalan comptroller's office, which Perez to resign over the swirling corruption scandal, the embattled president stepped down in early September. (The vice president is serving the remainder of his term, which ends January 14, 2016.)
Prosecutors alleged that Perez was involved in a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme, among other charges, but the disgraced former president said he could have made 10 or 15 times the money if he had taken the bribes offered him by El Chapo Guzmán, who Perez, as an army general, led the operation that caught Guzmán in Guatemala in 1993.