A development bank like the Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft naturally has to face up to public criticism. However, one should expect fair and balanced reporting from serious investigative journalists. However, the article by Gesa Steeger entitled “Deforestation – DEG promotes environmental destruction” fails to do just that. In the following article, Roger Peltzer shows how, on the basis of a single possible misconduct by a company financed by DEG, the steep thesis is put forward, practically without evidence, that DEG predominantly finances projects that are questionable in terms of development policy.

The powerful political castes who were voted out of office are using all their remaining influence to make the handover to the newly elected President Bernardo Arévalo as rocky as possible. B. Arévalo describes this as a quietly approaching coup

While Europe is moving to the right, left-wing governments are coming to power in Latin America, most recently Bernardo Arévalo in Guatemala. What does this mean for Germany’s foreign and development policy? Pedro Morazán analyzes the latest developments in Latin