Demonstrators shout slogans against Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales as they gather at the Constitutional Court in support of the UN International Commission Against Impunity, in Guatemala City, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales announced Sunday he is expelling of Ivan Velasquez, the head of a U.N. anti-corruption commission that is investigating the president’s campaign financing. Morales said nothing of kicking out the entire commission of foreign experts, but the expulsion would leave its future unclear. However, by midday, Francisco de Mata Vela, head of Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, said that body had issued a temporary injunction blocking the order to expel Velasquez. Health Minister Lucrecia Hernandez Mack and her deputies resigned, saying that by expelling Velasquez, Morales had taken a position in favor of impunity and the corrupt sectors of the country.

Source: Washington Post August 27, 2017 13:33 UTC