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  2. La Línea corruption case - Wikipedia

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    The La Línea corruption case began in Guatemala on April 16, 2015 when the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala ( Spanish: Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala, CICIG) and State prosecutors accused a number of politicians in the administration of President Otto Pérez Molina of setting up a customs ...

  3. La Línea (gang) - Wikipedia

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    La Línea (gang) La Línea ("The Line") is currently the leading faction of the Juárez Cartel originally designed to be one of the cartel's enforcer units set up by a number of former and active-duty policemen, heavily armed and extensively trained in urban warfare. [3] Their corrupt "line" of policemen were set up to protect drug traffickers ...

  4. International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala

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    The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala ( Spanish: Comisión Internacional contra la Impunidad en Guatemala, CICIG) was an international body charged with investigating and prosecuting serious crime in Guatemala. On January 7, 2019, the agreement between the United Nations and Guatemala was terminated by Guatemalan president ...

  5. Prostitution in Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    There is an offence of “aggravated procuring” where a minor is involved. [2] Keeping a brothel is not prohibited. [1] Prostitution is widespread in Guatemala; UNAIDS estimate there to be 26,000 prostitutes in the country. [3] Guatemala City alone has 9 red-light districts, [4] including La Linea, El Trebol and Parque Concordia. [5]

  6. Departments of Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    The Republic of Guatemala is divided into 22 departments ( Spanish: departamentos) [1] which in turn are divided into 340 municipalities. [2] [3] The departments are governed by a departmental governor, appointed by the President . In addition, Guatemala has claimed that all or part of the nation of Belize is a department of Guatemala, and this ...

  7. Central America Resource Center - Wikipedia

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    The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) are two community-based organizations that seek to foster the comprehensive development of the Latino community.CARECEN in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region was founded in 1981 to protect the rights of refugees arriving from conflict in Central America and to help ease their transition by providing legal services.

  8. Languages of Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Garifuna. Foreign. English. Spanish is the official language of Guatemala. Guatemalan Spanish is the local variant of the Spanish language. Twenty-six Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian languages: Xinca, an indigenous language, and Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean ...

  9. La Línea de la Concepción - Wikipedia

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    UTC+2 ( CEST) Postal code. 11300. Dialing code. (+34) 956 ó 856. Website. www.lalinea.es. La Línea de la Concepción ( Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈlinea ðe la konθeβˈθjon] ), often referred to simply as La Línea, is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Cádiz, Andalusia . The city lies on the sandy isthmus which is part ...