Guatemalan officials resign after maximum security jailbreak


  • World
  • Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -Guatemala's President Bernardo Arevalo said on Wednesday he had accepted the resignations of his minister of governance and two deputies in the wake of an August jailbreak from a maximum security prison.

Governance Minister Francisco Jimenez stepped down alongside his anti-narcotics and border security deputy Claudia Palencia and his security deputy Jose Portillo, Arevalo said.

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