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The Latest: Guatemalans to protest end of anti-graft body
Published 10:10 am CDT, Saturday, September 1, 2018
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The Latest on the end of a mandate for a U.N.-sponsored anti-graft commission in Guatemala (all times local):
9:01 a.m.
Guatemalans are expected to take to a main square in protest against a decision by President Jimmy Morales to shut down the U.N.-sponsored anti-graft commission that pressed a number of high-profile corruption probes.
Renewed calls for protesters to gather at Constitution Square outside Guatemala City's National Palace on Saturday come a day after Morales said he would end the mandate of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, or CICIG.
The government later clarified that the commission will remain in the country through its two-year term ending on Sept. 3, 2019.
More:
https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/The-Latest-Guatemalans-to-protest-end-of-13198847.php
