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And there it is….the conservative President of Guatemala who left office last Sunday and was replaced by a far Left Progressive with the help of the @StateDept has now been sanctioned and designated “corrupt”.@DrGiammattei is the Central American leader who refused to go to Joe Biden’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles - and who begged the White House for help to combat the illegal immigrant invasion coming through his country to the United States (Biden-Harris refused to help).

The U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on former Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Wednesday, banning him and his sons from entering the United States because of his alleged “involvement in significant corruption.” The sanctions were issued three days after Giammattei left office at the end of his four-year term and following the inauguration of his successor, leftist President Bernardo Arévalo, who took office on Monday. In a press statement issued on Wednesday, spokesman Matthew Miller asserted that the State Department has “credible information indicating that Giammattei accepted bribes in exchange for the performance of his public functions during his tenure...

Guatemala inaugurated leftist President Bernardo Arévalo in the early morning hours of Monday following a series of delays, squabbles, and confusion in Congress. The inauguration was scheduled to take place on Sunday. Arévalo, who succeeded conservative President Alejandro Giammattei, began his term vowing to “rescue” Guatemala from corruption as his political party, the Semilla Movement, faces an investigation by the Guatemalan Prosecutor’s Office that resulted in the party’s disqualification from politics in November. As a result, its recently-inaugurated lawmakers took office on Sunday as independents.

Alejandro Giammattei, a center-right businessman and former prisons director making his fourth bid for the presidency, was elected as Guatemala’s president on Sunday in a runoff election where corruption and a migration crisis were the two top issues. Mr. Giammattei, 63 years old, defeated former first lady Sandra Torres, a social-democrat, according to preliminary results by the electoral agency. With 97% of votes counted, Mr. Giammattei got 58.5% support while Ms. Torres, who is being investigated for alleged corruption.