U.S. Senator Says Moscow Exerting Pressure in Latin American

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Channel: Greater Belize Media | GBM · 2018 · News & Politics

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President Morales is accusing the CICIG of violating the presumption of innocence of those it has investigated. By refusing to renew its mandate earlier this year, the president effectively gave CICIG until the end of its current term in September 2019 to wind down operations and leave the country. His government later declared Commission Chief Ivan Velasquez, who is a Colombian national, persona non grata and refused to let him return to Guatemala from a work trip to the United States. During his presentations, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker accused the CICIG of doing the bidding of Russian President Vladimir Putin of exerting Russian pressure on Latin America.

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