hundreds block guatemala roads to demand president step down
Friday 27 June 2025
Last Updated : GMT 09:40:38
Themuslimchronicle, themuslimchronicle

Hundreds block Guatemala roads to demand president step down

Themuslimchronicle, themuslimchronicle

Themuslimchronicle, themuslimchronicleHundreds block Guatemala roads to demand president step down

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales
Guatemala City - Muslimchronicle

 Hundreds of protesters blocked roads in Guatemala on Tuesday to demand that President Jimmy Morales step down because of accusations of corruption stemming from his 2015 election campaign.

The demonstrators were mostly from rural and indigenous communities. The national roads authority said main roads in the Central American country were blocked at at least seven locations.

A leader of the rural group organizing the protest, Neftali Lopez, said the demonstrators wanted Morales to resign "for corruption" and facilitating organized crime, a purge of Congress, and graft investigations against Guatemala City's mayor and a former president, Alvaro Arzu.

Morales, a 48-year-old former TV comic, took office last year vowing to clean up Guatemala's notoriously shady politics.

He succeeded Otto Perez, who had to step down when a corruption scandal implicating him exploded into street protests and ended with him in jail pending a trial.

But Morales' star has tumbled since, with a UN-backed anti-corruption body, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG in Spanish), demanding the president's immunity be lifted so he can be investigated for suspected illegal campaign financing.

Morales responded by trying to boot out the Colombian head of the CICIG, prompting a public and international uproar. Guatemala's top court voided his order.

Congress has held two votes on whether to withdraw Morales' immunity, but each time the motion has failed to gather the 105 votes necessary.

source: AFP

themuslimchronicle
themuslimchronicle

Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

hundreds block guatemala roads to demand president step down hundreds block guatemala roads to demand president step down

 



Themuslimchronicle, themuslimchronicle

GMT 16:33 2011 Monday ,07 November

Iran\'s hero pilot honored

GMT 20:07 2017 Thursday ,19 October

woman&home appoints assistant editor (health & beauty)

GMT 08:41 2017 Thursday ,21 December

Robot 'Trump' at Disney as controversial

GMT 08:44 2017 Wednesday ,20 December

Ayten Amer happy for reactions to “The Flood”

GMT 04:13 2017 Thursday ,16 February

The world’s longest tunnel opens in Switzerland

GMT 13:58 2016 Saturday ,01 October

Lure of Australia's Uluru hard to resist

GMT 08:12 2017 Tuesday ,29 August

Pakistan bank faces $629mn penalty in the US

GMT 08:39 2018 Tuesday ,23 January

Instagram, Google+ join EU group

GMT 07:31 2018 Sunday ,21 January

Female Sherpa from Nepal scales new heights

GMT 07:01 2018 Sunday ,21 January

Trump and 'Davos Man': best of enemies

GMT 12:02 2018 Wednesday ,17 January

Trump visit set to eclipse Davos meet

GMT 08:31 2017 Thursday ,10 August

Afghan migrant 'Little Picasso' exhibits in Belgrade

GMT 16:10 2013 Friday ,04 January

Baghdad is drowning in the seas of its mayoralty

GMT 20:42 2018 Thursday ,04 January

Myths and misconceptions surrounding VAT

GMT 09:13 2017 Wednesday ,20 December

Rebel shellfire kills three in Damascus

GMT 10:48 2017 Thursday ,31 August

20 years on, Britain remembers
Themuslimchronicle, themuslimchronicle
Themuslimchronicle, themuslimchronicle
 
 Themuslimchronicle Facebook,themuslimchronicle facebook  Themuslimchronicle Twitter,themuslimchronicle twitter Themuslimchronicle Rss,themuslimchronicle rss  Themuslimchronicle Youtube,themuslimchronicle youtube  Themuslimchronicle Youtube,themuslimchronicle youtube

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2025 ©

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2025 ©

muslimchronicle muslimchronicle muslimchronicle muslimchronicle
themuslimchronicle themuslimchronicle themuslimchronicle
themuslimchronicle
بناية النخيل - رأس النبع _ خلف السفارة الفرنسية _بيروت - لبنان
themuslimchronicle, themuslimchronicle, themuslimchronicle