US charges ex-Guatemala Vice President with drug trafficking
The US has charged former Guatemalan Vice President Roxana Baldetti and ex-Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez with drug trafficking, the American Embassy said on Friday. It will seek their extradition on charges of conspiring to distribute five kg of cocaine in the US. Notably, Baldetti and former President Otto Pérez Molina have been imprisoned in Guatemala since 2015 on corruption charges.