Guatemala's president quits over graft scandal | Reuters
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Full story here. Also see: Guatemala President Faces Arrest as Business Interests and U.S. Scramble to Contain Uprising | Democracy NOW! “The issue is corruption. But if the movement develops further, if it spreads more fully to the Mayan heartland of the country, then the issue could move from corruption to justice, because … Pérez Molina was a commander in the northwest highlands during the ’80s. He personally helped implement the Ríos Montt program of mass murder - effectively, genocide - against the Mayan population. And that’s what the Guatemalan system has been built on.”