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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 18 May 2017
GUATEMALA: Morales’s appointments excite controversy
At the end of last month President Jimmy Morales named Víctor Manuel Asturias Cordón, a mechanical engineer by profession, as his new economy minister. He replaces Rubén Estuardo Morales Monroy, who stepped down for unspecified “personal reasons”. Asturias’s appointment is just one of various which are proving controversial for the president and his small, conservative Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) government.
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