Guatemalan voters elected their new president, former comedian Jimmy Morales, on Oct. 25 in a crucial second-round election after an unprecedented U.S.-backed corruption investigation forced the country's president and vice president to resign. Since corruption is deeply ingrained in Guatemala's institutions, Morales will have to be cautious to avoid the fate of detained former President Otto Perez Molina. The United States' primary interests in Guatemala are countering narcotics and human smuggling as well as enabling the development of credible state institutions. For these reasons, the United States will continue to influence the new Guatemalan government through the use of international anti-corruption commissions such as the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). It was a CICIG-led investigation that brought down Perez Molina in September.