MEXICO CITY—Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales deepened a political crisis in the country on Sunday by ordering the expulsion of a U.N.-backed anticorruption prosecutor who is investigating allegations of illegal campaign financing into the president’s election two years ago. Mr. Morales, saying he was acting “in the interests of the Guatemalan people, the rule of law and institutionality,” ordered Ivan Velásquez, the Colombian...
Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2017 17:15 UTC