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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 09 November 2018

GUATEMALA: Death squad scandal rears head again

The government led by President Jimmy Morales bowed to the inevitable and dismissed the deputy interior minister, Kamilo Rivera, on 2 November. Rivera had already bolted. He went on the run days earlier, hastily resigning his position, after the attorney general’s office and the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) accused him of involvement in a death squad that carried out extrajudicial executions in Guatemala over a decade ago. The whole episode further damages the credibility of Morales, who appointed Rivera 10 months ago directly after taking exception to the turn Cicig’s investigations were taking.

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