Guatemala's attorney-general, who new President Bernardo Arevalo accuses of involvement in a plot to undo his election, snubbed a meeting with the head of state Wednesday and said she refused to resign.All three are listed as corrupt and undemocratic by the US government, and Arevalo had said one of his first actions as president would be to ask Porras to resign.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Senior Mexican, U.S. and Guatemalan officials will meet as soon as possible for talks on migration, Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said on Monday as she set out plans aimed at reducing pressures on the U.S.-Mexico border. Speaking after meeting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week in Washington, Barcena said the two sides wanted to allow asylum-seekers to sign up further south for a U.S. government app used for scheduling appointments. The step planned
President of Guatemala, Bernardo Arevalo, was sworn in on January 15th after several months of legal maneuvers by the incumbent Attorney General María Consuelo Porras. President Bernardo Arevalo has endured political difficulties from Guatemala’s entrenched oligarchy as his political campaign revolved around promises to fight corruption and support indigenous civil rights. Attorney General Porras is a notorious ally of the wealthy and was responsible for attempting to arrest members of a