More good Guatemala News

From our agency. Carlota is the name of the lawyer in Guatemala that handles everything for the agency. Basically it sounds like the rest of the year should be just fine & that no big, bad changes have much chance, if any, to occur.

For the past week, there have been rumors of the Congress acting once again on the Protocol and another bill that would both cause a problem for international adoptions in Guatemala to proceed as they would both be contested as unconstitutional. Several of our families who religiously read the internet postings, were very concerned regarding the outcome of these two bills before Congress. Absolutely NOTHING happened. The bills were not discussed as the Congressmen know that they could not pass without changes to the constitution. Today (May 3) begins the Political Party Campaign kickoffs and the last session of Congress takes place on Monday, May 7th, after which time, only serious country concerns will reconvene the Congress before the first of next year. Carlota laughingly said: "Adoption is not considered a serious enough concern to discuss during the Congressional recess." Therefore....it is believed that we have until the end of the year without more of these threats of closure of the program.