By Reuters Staff
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MEXICO CITY, May 26 (Reuters) - Mexico will on Thursday receive more than 2.2 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine as part of the global COVAX vaccine-sharing plan, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Wednesday.
The global programme - co-led by the GAVI vaccine alliance and the World Health Organization (WHO) - aims to provide vaccines for low and middle income countries but has experienced delays amid worldwide vaccine shortages.
Ebrard said Covax has informed Mexico that 2,229,600 doses will arrive from Amsterdam on Thursday.
“This will ensure the (supply of) doses for people 50 years of age and over,” Ebrard said on Twitter. (Writing by Drazen Jorgic Editing by Dave Graham)
Guatemala detains ex-tax chief who took on oligarchs Reuters 5 hrs ago
By Sofia Menchu
GUATEMALA CITY, May 19 (Reuters) - Guatemala on Wednesday arrested a former tax chief known for chasing oligarchs wealth and dropped a graft charge against a former president, the latest setbacks to U.S. President Joe Biden s campaign to hold the powerful accountable in Central America.
The Biden administration has made targeting corruption central to its $4 billion strategy to address root causes driving migration from the so-called Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Juan Francisco Solorzano Foppa, the head of the Tax Administration Superintendency (SAT) between 2016 and 2018, built a reputation for building cases against powerful Guatemalan families that hold huge sway in the country.
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