Weekly Report - 24 February 2004
GUATEMALA: Portillo loses immunity, skips abroad
Former President Alfonso Portillo left Guatemala shortly after the constitutional court stripped him and his former Vice-President, Francisco Reyes, of parliamentary immunity from prosecution, which they enjoyed ex-officio as members of the Central American parliament, Parlacen. Whether flight, as claimed in the Guatemalan press, or a previously arranged trip, he beat by hours an injunction sought by chief prosecutor Carlos de León.
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