LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 23 June 2017

GUATEMALA | Baldetti to be extradited to US. The former vice president Roxana Baldetti has accepted extradition to the US where she stands accused of receiving up to US$250,000 in bribes from the Mexican drug trafficking organisation Los Zetas in 2011, when she was a candidate for the right-wing Partido Patriota (PP) – for which she would be elected and serve in office from 2012 to 2015 (when she was arrested). The bribes were in exchange for facilitating the passage of drugs through Guatemala and onwards to Mexico en route to the US.

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