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Read about how a crisis erupted in Guatemala on August 28, 2017 after Attorney General Thelma Aldana denounced President
Jimmy Morales’ decision to expel Colombian lawyer Iván Velásquez, head of the Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad
en Guatemala (CICIG), which was created in 2006 with the support of the United Nations. While Morales claimed that he
was expelling the respected jurist to protect the fatherland, observers noted that Aldana and Velázquez were moving to
strip him of his immunity in an ongoing corruption investigation. Protests and resignations ensued, while the Guatemalan
high court blocked the president’s move. Political observers wonder if this is the end for President Morales.
Read as well about Panamanian restaurants’ war on saltshakers, youth as a state of mind for an Argentinian theater
director, continuing state pressure on Cuban opposition organizations, Mexico’s leadership of regional tourism, the
uncertain future for areas formerly controlled by the FARC in Colombia, Chile and Bolivia’s Silala River dispute, a
massive petition in defense of the Brazilian Amazon, the Zapatistas’ decision to disarm for Mexican elections, India and
Peru’s pharmaceutical market, street protests over femicide in Nicaragua, increasing tensions between Colombia and
Venezuela over treatment of news organizations, advantages and risks involved with the “family business model” in
Argentina, Mexican farmers’ use of drones and robots, and much, much more.
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