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Re: Guatemalan president is jailed hours after resignation 

By: zzstar in FFFT3 | Recommend this post (2)
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It's called democracy, something Regan and his lackies never wanted for Latin America, instead preferring to help gangs import drugs to America in order to finance the CIA's exploits with death squads, and government take downs, down there.


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Guatemalan president is jailed hours after resignation
By: clo in FFFT3
Fri, 04 Sep 15 4:55 AM 		Msg. 15296 of 65535

Guatemalan president is jailed hours after resignation
Thursday, September 3, 2015 7:30 PM EDT

Hours after resigning his post as the president of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, a former general and the nation’s most powerful man, was sent to jail to await the conclusion of an evidentiary hearing into his role in a multi-million dollar customs fraud.

The decision to detain Mr. Pérez Molina, much like his resignation, is unprecedented in Guatemalan history and was a stunning conclusion to a day of swift change in the Central American nation. Mr. Pérez Molina tendered his resignation overnight, and by midmorning on Thursday the country’s Congress had accepted it. He then presented himself before the courts for the evidentiary hearing, where prosecutors played more than six hours of wiretapped conversations.

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