Tag: Roxana Baldetti

• 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.