Why Does Nobody Trust Guatemala? The Serial Sin of Undermining Legal Certainty

Socrates said —according to Plato in his dialogue with Cephalus— that keeping one’s word is a foundational principle of justice and coexistence: “The essence of justice consists in each person fulfilling what was promised and returning what was received.” Aristotle confirmed this in his Nicomachean Ethics (340 B.C.): “Legal justice must be followed once laws […]