Posted on 09/03/2015 6:18:49 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
GUATEMALA CITY — Just hours after tendering his resignation as president of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina was sent to jail to await the conclusion of a hearing examining his role in a multimillion dollar customs fraud case that has shaken the nation and sent reverberations throughout the region.
The decision to jail Mr. Pérez Molina highlighted the seismic change sweeping through Guatemala after the corruption accusations in April, and offered a dramatic validation of a growing street demonstration movement demanding his ouster and prosecution.
For much of Guatemala’s violent history, marked by dictatorship and military repression, such a scene would have been unimaginable: a sitting president forced to resign, then sit before a court to hear charges leveled against him and ultimately spend the night in a prison he once might have overseen as a top general.
All that in the course of a single day.
Until now, Mr. Pérez Molina gave no indication he would go gently. Even as street protests grew to include tens of thousands of citizens demanding that he step down over accusations that he played a major role in a multimillion dollar customs fraud scheme, the president, who was the military’s negotiator during talks to end the nation’s bloody 36-year civil war, denied wrongdoing and refused to leave office. But just before midnight on Wednesday, Mr. Pérez Molina filed his resignation, saying he would “face justice and resolve my personal situation.”
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Does this mean all of Obonzo’s “unaccompanied minor refugees” can go the hell home now?
Sorry, I just wanted to see what it would look like.
This is how ya do it.
This is why we should never go “nation-building” south of our southern border. Everything from there to Tierra del Fuego is corrupt now, or will be corrupt in the future. Trump is right, we need a wall, and alligators in the Rio Grande.
Did they say: Obama Hussein Obama
What a pleasant uplifting thought!
I look forward to the day when that is the headline here!
Peanuts compared to what Hillary pulled off in her 4 years as SOS.
If you are a dem in the USA, resigning means no prosecution , subpoena, or indictment. One notch stronger than a non-apology “apology” or “taking full responsibility”.
I dream that Justice will find all the criminals in government soon.
We’re all allowed a fantasy from time to time.
That looks and sounds good to me =)
Please let my wish come true o Lord
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