Top anticorruption prosecutor from Guatemala receives asylum in the US
Al JazeeraThe decision came two years after Juan Francisco Sandoval fled Guatemala in the dead of night, fearing arrest. The official who sought his removal, Attorney General Maria Consuelo Porras, indicated she would pursue Sandoval on charges that he made “constant” and “frequent abuses” of his authority. Sandoval’s sudden removal from his high-ranking post and his subsequent exile helped trigger anticorruption protests in Guatemala City. Guatemala has seen a crackdown on anticorruption figures like Sandoval and Aifan since the dissolution of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, a United Nations-backed body designed to root out criminal networks. The attorney general, Porras, has repeatedly sought to suspend Arevalo’s political party, and her prosecutors have used court orders to raid the party’s headquarters, as well as the offices of Guatemala’s election authority.
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