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Guatemalan prosecutors raided nan offices of nan kindness Save nan Children connected Thursday, citing a title alleging nan usurpation of migrant children’s rights.
Prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche said successful a video to nan media that nan title revenge by an unidentified foreigner had raised superior concerns because it progressive allegations of maltreatment of children.
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The ambush came a week aft nan caput wide of Guatemala's Public Ministry, Ángel Pineda, wrote a missive to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asking for support successful addressing allegations that Save nan Children and different assistance groups "could beryllium participating successful kid trafficking operations."
An supplier from nan Attorney General's agency enters Save nan Children's office during a ambush successful Guatemala City, Thursday, April 25, 2024. The NGO is being investigated for an alleged title astir nan usurpation of migrant children's rights, according to statements made by charismatic Rafel Curruchiche. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Curruchiche said nan ambush was intended to hunt for immoderate documents that mightiness support nan accusations. The prosecutor’s agency did not opportunity whether Paxton responded to nan request.
Curruchiche and Pineda person been accused of trying to undermine nan country’s populist by participating successful a grounded effort to forestall anti-corruption President Bernardo Arévalo from taking powerfulness arsenic good arsenic hindering nan anti-corruption conflict successful nan Central American nation. Those efforts person led to much than 40 countries sanctioning them, including nan United States and nan European Union.
The ambush comes amid historical levels of migration to nan United States, successful which Guatemala has been some a state that group migrate from and a transit way that they usage connected their measurement north.
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Save nan Children, which is dedicated to caring for children successful situation zones, has been moving successful Guatemala since 1976. It did not remark connected Thursday's raid, but it issued a connection past week indicating it was alert of nan allegations saying it has nary grounds nan allegations are true.
"We return nan allegations of children's information and misconduct very earnestly and person independent investigative mechanisms successful spot to analyse thoroughly," nan charity's connection said. "We person nary grounds to validate specified allegations and we proceed to activity difficult to supply humanitarian assistance to migrant children and their families nether strict information and protection standards."
