Guatemala’s President Faces Judge After Offering Resignation
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Embattled Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina offered his resignation to Congress as he faces arrest for alleged involvement in a bribery scandal that has already seen his former vice president jailed.
“With the conviction of doing the right thing, I direct myself to you and to the honorable Congress of the Republic to present my resignation as president,” Perez Molina, 64, said in a letter provided by spokesman Jorge Ortega.