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Guatemalan president requests AG's impeachment to fight 'corruption'

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Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo announces in a video that he has asked Congress for legal reform to remove Attorney General Consuelo Porras from office amid a corruption investigation. "As a president directly elected by the people with an explicit mandate to fight for transparency and against corruption," he says, "I cannot allow this injustice to continue." SOUNDBITE

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