Tag: Alejandro Giammattei

• Friday, June 16th 2023 - 09:41 UTC

  Guatemalan court hands down 6-year prison sentence to newspaper founder

  

  José Rubén Zamora, founder of El Periódico, a newspaper critical of Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei which went out of business last month, has been sentenced to six years in jail for alleged money laundering, it was reported. Both Zamora and the Prosecutor's Office announced that they will appeal the ruling.

• Wednesday, May 18th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Guatemala joins list of countries to skip Summit of the Americas

  

  Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei Tuesday announced he would join the ranks of leaders of the Americas who have chosen not to attend next month's regional Summit in Los Angeles, California, following the reluctance of US President Joseph Biden to invite Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 18:29 UTC

  Guatemalans set congress on fire furious over corruption and lack of funds to combat coronavirus

  

  Hundreds of Guatemalans partly burned the Congress building on Saturday in a protest demanding the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei, following the passage of a budget that has sparked outrage in the impoverished Central American nation.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Guatemala turns back a caravan of 3,500 Hondurans migrants heading for US

  

  Guatemala has sent back almost 3,500 Honduran migrants from a caravan that was heading to the United States over concerns they might spread COVID-19, President Alejandro Giammattei said on Sunday.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:29 UTC

  Guatemala cuts diplomatic ties with Venezuela; orders the closure of the embassy in Caracas

  

  Guatemala’s new President Alejandro Giammattei cut diplomatic ties with the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro and ordered the closure of its embassy in Caracas.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Mexico offers jobs to a Central America migrants' caravan heading for the US

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offered 4,000 jobs Friday to migrants in a new caravan currently crossing Central America toward the United States.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 16:07 UTC

  Honduran migrant column heading for US, but Mexico warns it won't let them through

  

  US President Donald Trump has put Mexico and Central American nations under pressure to accept a series of migration agreements that aim to shift the burden of dealing with asylum-seekers on to them, and away from the United States.

• Friday, June 21st 2019 - 09:28 UTC

  Total vote recount ordered in Guatemala's Sunday presidential election

  

  Guatemala will hold a total vote recount after fraud allegations in the wake of last Sunday's presidential and legislative elections, the country's Supreme Electoral Court announced on Thursday.