Tag: Otto Perez

• Thursday, August 27th 2015 - 02:36 UTC

  Guatemala Supreme Court approves impeachment of president Otto Perez

  

  The Guatemalan Supreme Court approved a request by the country’s attorney general to impeach President Otto Perez over his suspected involvement in a racket to siphon customs revenue from the government, and passed the matter to Congress for approval.

• Thursday, August 27th 2015 - 02:22 UTC

  Ex Guatemala vice-president accused of fraud denied bail and sent to an ordinary jail

  

  A Guatemalan judge ruled Wednesday that former vice president Roxana Baldetti must remain in jail pending trial on charges of defrauding the customs service of millions of dollars. Judge Miguel Angel Galvez said he considered it “prudent” to deny bail to Baldetti, whom prosecutors and a special UN investigative commission accuses her of masterminding a customs bribery ring along with President Otto Perez.

• Monday, August 24th 2015 - 10:56 UTC

  Guatemala president will not quit and rejects corruption allegations

  

  Guatemalan President Otto Perez said he will not resign and rejected allegations that he was one of the ringleaders of a corruption scandal shaking the country.

• Saturday, August 22nd 2015 - 07:56 UTC

  Prosecution requests impeachment of Guatemala president Otto Perez

  

  Guatemala’s prosecutor’s office said Friday that it has requested the Supreme Court's permission to start an impeachment process for President Otto Perez Molina over a sprawling corruption case that has held the country in the grip of political turmoil for months. The move came hours after the former vice president was placed under arrest for her own alleged role in the scandal.

• Monday, May 18th 2015 - 04:32 UTC

  Massive turnout in Guatemala demanding president Perez Molina steps down

  

  Thousands of Guatemalans took to the streets on Saturday, demanding the nation's President Otto Perez Molina leave office in the wake of a scandal that claimed his former Vice President Roxana Baldetti.

• Saturday, June 28th 2014 - 10:43 UTC

  Swire on a five-day visit of Costa Rica, Guatemala and Colombia

  

  Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire was on a five day visit to Costa Rica, Guatemala and Colombia this week, following recent elections in both countries and with the purpose of expanding political and trade relations.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 01:47 UTC

  Mujica to address UN assembly on 28 September; meeting with several Latam presidents

  

  Uruguay’s president Jose Mujica will be attending the UN 68th General Assembly on the last week of September in New York, where he is scheduled to meet with several of his Latinamerica peers and the Secretary General Ban-Ki-moon.

• Monday, January 16th 2012 - 07:24 UTC

  New Guatemala president pledges ‘mano dura’ against crime and insecurity

  

  Retired army Gen. Otto Perez Molina was sworn in as Guatemala's president Saturday, pledging to take a tough stand on crime amid growing insecurity in the Central American nation.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 05:50 UTC

  Iran’s president adds Guatemala to his tour of four Latin American countries

  

  Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadineyad who is scheduled to begin next week a tour of several Latin American countries will also be attending the inauguration of Guatemalan president Otto Perez next 14 January according to future Foreign Affairs minister Harold Caballerso.

• Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:27 UTC

  Former general who promises “strong hand” against crime leads in Guatemala election

  

  A retired right-wing general promising to stamp out spiralling crime took an early lead in Guatemala's Sunday presidential election that he was favoured to win.