The Tico Times
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 06:27
Guatemala’s embattled President Otto Pérez Molina fired three ministers and his spy chief Thursday, seeking to get a grip on a deepening corruption scandal that already claimed his vice president.
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 06:38
The heads of the Guatemalan Central Bank and social security administration were arrested Wednesday on corruption charges, prosecutors said, the latest blow to embattled President Otto Pérez Molina.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 06:27
Interpol issued an international warrant for the arrest of a Guatemalan businessman accused of being involved in a tax fraud network that caused the resignation of Vice President Roxana Baldetti, an official source said Monday
Monday, May 18, 2015 - 12:45
In a country deeply divided by class and race, upper- and middle-class students from the country’s top three private universities joined students from the state-funded University of San Carlos, religious groups, gay rights organizations and ordinary citizens, in a peaceful demonstration against government corruption.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 06:02
Authorities told residents of Guadalajara on Tuesday to ignore banners allegedly hung around Mexico’s second biggest city by a drug cartel that killed 15 police officers last week.
Friday, March 6, 2015 - 06:34
Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina appears willing to forego potential millions in U.S. funding to get rid of a U.N. crime-fighting body that’s been a thorn in the side of criminals and shady government officials.
Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 06:57
Costa Rica’s Drug Control Police (PCD) on Wednesday morning raided 11 locations across the Central Valley and arrested eight suspects believed to belong to an international drug trafficking and money laundering ring, according to Public Security Vice Minister María Fullmen.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 22:43
A Guatemalan court will open a trial on Wednesday against a former police official accused of causing the deaths of 37 people in a fire at the Spanish Embassy in 1980, announced Nobel Peace Prize winner and indigenous rights advocate Rigoberta Menchú, whose father, Vicente Menchú, was killed in the attack that occurred in the context of the bloody 36-year Guatemalan civil war.
Friday, September 26, 2014 - 07:08
Last week, a criminal court in the Caribbean slope town of Pococí found Colombian helicopter mechanic Andrés Camilo Ramírez Sánchez not guilty of drugs, weapons and money laundering charges.
Friday, May 9, 2014 - 08:14
From the information gleaned from his detailed platform and public comments, here are a few things we can likely expect (and not) from the Solís administration: