Guatemala President Resigns Amid Corruption Probe

SONIA PEREZ D. & ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press, The Providence Journal
Thu, 09/03/2015 - 9:52am

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina resigned in the face of a corruption scandal that has brought his government to the brink, and arrived at court Thursday morning to hear the charges against him.Spokesman Jorge Ortega said Perez Molina submitted his resignation at midnight Wednesday local time after a judge issued an order to detain him in the customs fraud case, which already has led to the jailing of his [...]

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