US envoy tells Guatemala president: We back UN graft body, chief

GUATEMALA CITY: US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales on Wednesday that Washington supports a UN -backed anti-graft body and its commissioner, who Morales has tried to oust after investigators targeted him. Haley said during a visit to Guatemala City Morales had not asked her for help to remove the head of the decade-old International Commission against Impunity (CICIG), Ivan Velasquez, a veteran Colombian prosecutor. “I told him that we supported CICIG and supported the commissioner,” Haley told two reporters traveling with her in the poor, violent Central American country. She said she encouraged Morales to continue his own anti-corruption efforts, which she said “were not getting heard. “Haley told Morales the Guatemalan people support CICIG and it was “in his best interest” to continue backing the body.