Authorities in Guatemala were holding a member of a U.N.-sponsored anti-corruption commission in the capital's airport on Sunday, refusing him entry to the country in an escalation of tensions between the government and the commission. Guatemala's attorney general sent more than 30 representatives and security personnel to the airport to protect Osorio. Nobel Peace Prize winner and indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu accused the executive branch of embodying corruption and impunity. At the time, Vice President Roxana Baldetti and President Otto Perez Molina had stepped down from office to face fraud and corruption charges. The U.N.-sponsored CICIG has operated for more than a decade in Guatemala, pressing charges in corruption cases that have implicated more than 600 people.

Source: ABC News January 06, 2019 17:48 UTC