{"id":14963,"date":"2018-09-13T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14963"},"modified":"2018-09-13T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:26:00","slug":"guatemalans-protest-against-morales-annulment-of-cicig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14963","title":{"rendered":"Guatemalans protest against Morales&#8217; annulment of CICIG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"72.7099236641\">\n<p>Thousands of Guatemalans have on the streets since Monday, when a week of marches kicked off to protest against the government&#8217;s decision to shut down an international anti-corruption commission in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, President Jimmy Morales announced he would not renew the mandate of the UN-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), which played a key role in prosecuting high-level officials for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/issues\/corruption.html\">corruption<\/a> and which is investigating Morales and his family, as well.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000 police officers and soldiers have been deployed to stop the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/protests.html\">demonstrations<\/a> from interrupting a session of parliament, angering opposition leaders who say the president is using the military to quell criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s David Mercer reports from Guatemala City.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Guatemalans have on the streets since Monday, when a week of marches kicked off to protest against the government&#8217;s decision to shut down an international anti-corruption commission in the country. Last month, President Jimmy Morales announced he would not renew the mandate of the UN-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}