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Guatemala prosecutors pursue ex-president Jimmy Morales

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Guatemala seeks ex-minister in relation to cash discovery

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Guatemala: former minister, lawmakers face graft probes

By SONNY FIGUEROA - Associated Press

Guatemala's President-elect Alejandro Giammattei gives a press conference at the National Theatre, the day before his inauguration in Guatemala City, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. Giammattei will be sworn-in as the 51st president of Guatemala on Jan. 14. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala swears in conservative Giammattei as president

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

File - In this Jan. 7, 2019 file photo, Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales gives a statement, at the National Palace in Guatemala City. Outgoing President Morales says his government has not agreed to receive Mexicans who had sought asylum in the United States. Morales, whose presidency ends next week, said that he had told U.S. officials that would have to be negotiated with his successor. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Guatemala president says no deal to send Mexicans there

By SONNY FIGUEROA - Associated Press

An activist holds a sing that reads in Spanish &quot;Thanks CICIG&quot; at the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity headquarters in Guatemala City, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. The UN mission is closing its operation after 12 years. It brought to trial three former presidents and hundreds of businessmen, officials, judges and individuals accused of corruption in the Central American country. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala bids goodbye to UN anti-graft body as it wraps up

By SONNY FIGUEROA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2017 file photo, Ivan Velasquez, commissioner of the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity, CICIG, pauses during an interview, in Guatemala City. The Colombian lawyer who led the commission starting in 2013, was forced to live outside the Central American nation due to tensions with President Jimmy Morales since 2018, but the impact of his work remains intact and although Morales was successful in putting an end to CICIG after 12 years of operations, Velásquez says he is satisfied. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

As UN body wraps up in Guatemala, fears for anti-graft fight

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2017 file photo, Ivan Velasquez, commissioner of the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity, poses for a portrait during an interview at CICIG headquarters in Guatemala City. The Colombian lawyer who led the commission starting in 2013, was forced to live outside the Central American nation due to tensions with President Jimmy Morales since 2018, but the impact of his work remains intact and although Morales was successful in putting an end to CICIG after 12 years of operations, Velásquez says he is satisfied. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

AP Interview: Guatemala graft body’s chief happy despite end

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Workers move out items on a dolly as the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity, CICIG, moves out of its headquarters in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. The UN mission it's closing after 12 years of operation in Guatemala. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

In final report, UN body says Guatemala ‘captured’ by graft

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Guatemala Border Agreement Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

How Guatemala’s asylum agreement can help Trump’s reelection

By Steve Hecht

Guatemala's President-elect Alejandro Giammattei gives an interview in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019. Giammattei said Tuesday that Guatemala will not be able to hold up its side of an immigration agreement with the United States by serving as a “safe third country” for asylum seekers. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Alejandro Giammattei, president-elect, says Guatemala can’t do migrant deal with U.S.

By Sonia Perez D. - Associated Press

Alejandro Giammatei, presidential candidate of the Vamos party, arrives to the Electoral Supreme Court headquarters for interviews with the press after partial election results were announced in Guatemala City, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. Giammattei headed for a victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff election, garnering favor with voters for his get-tough approach on crime and socially conservative values. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Guatemalans worry about graft after Giammattei wins election

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Demonstrators demand the resignation of Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, one wearing a T-shirt of Morales as a clown, outside the Presidential House in Guatemala City, Saturday, July 27, 2019. Demonstrators are protesting an agreement their government signed with Washington to require migrants passing through the Central American country to seek asylum there, rather than pushing on to the U.S. Before becoming president, Morales was a professional comedian. (AP Photo/ Oliver de Ros)

Guatemala official seeks to nullify asylum deal with US

By SONNY FIGUEROA - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18, 2019 file photo, migrants arriving from Guatemala disembark from a raft in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. Guatemala's office of the presidency said in a Sunday, July 14, 2019 statement that a meeting between Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales and U.S. President Donald Trump would be rescheduled due to legal appeals aimed at preventing Morales from acceding to Trump's requests to allow migrants, including non-Guatemalans, to remain in Guatemala while they apply for U.S. asylum instead of waiting at the Mexico-U.S. border. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Guatemala cancels meeting between Morales and Trump

By SONIA D. PEREZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2019 file photo, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales talks with Canada's ambassador Rita Marija Rudaitis-Renaud during a welcome ceremony for ambassadors in Guatemala City. A potential agreement with Washington to turn Guatemala into a “safe third country” for asylum seekers has the Guatemalan opposition up in arms and experts scratching their heads. President Morales is set to meet Monday, July 15, in Washington with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, and officials there have said “safe third country” is on the table, though not a done deal. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Guatemala seen as ill-prepared to absorb US-bound refugees

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Trump to discuss migrant crisis with Guatemalan president

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A Honduran boy, who is waiting with his family to request asylum, rests on an air mattress at the entrance to the Puerta Mexico international bridge in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, Friday, June 28, 2019. Hundreds of migrants from Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Africa have been waiting, most in rented rooms or a distant shelter, for their number to be called at the bridge in downtown Matamoros, to have the opportunity to request asylum in the U.S.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Guatemala court asked to block ‘safe 3rd country’ with US

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Juan Francisco Sandoval, Guatemala's lead prosecutor against impunity, poses for a photo during an interview in Guatemala City, Wednesday, April 3, 2019. Sandoval said President Jimmy Morales’ government has done everything possible to block his investigations into high-level corruption, including of the president himself. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemalan anti-corruption prosecutor fears for his life

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

A woman chants slogans against the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity, CICIG, during a rally in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. A decade-long, U.N.-assisted anti-corruption effort that brought down a president faced extinction after the Guatemalan government ended the agreement, drawing condemnation Tuesday from transparency and rights groups. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala court blocks president’s expulsion of UN team

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales, center back, and Vice President Jafeth Cabrera walk after a statement at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Guatemala announced that it is going to withdraw from UN-sponsored anti-corruption commission. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Historic Guatemalan anti-corruption battle endangered

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press