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The HACAs that emerged in Central America to identify and dismantle networks of corruption and criminality were able to successfully implement their mandates, despite the fact that certain political and diplomatic challenges forced them to build designs with important contradictions and limitations. This chapter argues that HACAs have achieved important accomplishments and, despite their great political and operational complexities, and the termination of CICIG, are indeed replicable in other national contexts. Nevertheless, some argue that HACAs in reality might actually weaken the states’ capabilities to face the huge problematic of corruption. This debate implies a deeper evaluation of these instruments, their desirability and viability under the umbrella of the challenges political reality imposes on international and regional governance schemes.
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“A consolidated state enjoys the privileges of international legal sovereignty, including recognition, the right to enter into treaties, and to join international organizations. It is a full “Westphalian/Vattelian” sovereign: Domestic authority structures are autonomously determined. It exercises effective domestic sovereignty, what we term here statehood, that is, the monopoly over the legitimate use of force and the ability to successfully make, implement, and enforce rules and regulations across all policy arenas within its territory”. Krasner, Stephen and Thomas Risse. 2014. “External Actors, State-Building, and Service Provision in Areas of Limited Statehood: Introduction.” Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions 27 (4), 545.
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Zamudio-González, L. (2020). CICIG and MACCIH: Two Models of Hybrid Anticorruption Agencies. In: International Intervention Instruments against Corruption in Central America. Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40878-7_6
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