FILE PHOTO: Commissioner of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) Ivan Velasquez speaks during a news conference in Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 25, 2017. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria/File Photo
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's constitutional court on Sunday made a provisional ruling by a unanimous vote to allow the chief of a United Nations-backed anti-graft body to return to the country, a judge told a news conference at the court.
President Jimmy Morales last month announced the shuttering of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), and subsequently barred its head from returning to the country, a move that triggered global criticism and street protests across the Central American nation.
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