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Guatemalans Hold Hardline On Talamas
posted (December 20, 2017)

And in our last story on the Bilateral Meetings in Panama, Foreign Minister Elrington says that the Guatemalans still want Magdalena Talamas removed as the OAS Representative. You’ll remember that they cried foul last year August when the OAS independent investigation team completed its report and found that the Belizean joint law enforcement team was vindicated in the fatal April 2016 shooting of the Guatemalan young man, Julio Alvarado Ruano.

The Guatemalans flatly rejected that investigation’s findings, and the Guatemalan officials were openly accusing the BDF of hunting the young man down and callously killing him.

They asserted then that they would ask the OAS to remove Magdalena Talamás as their representative in the Adjacency Zone. Well, it appears that the Guatemalan Government still hasn’t retreated from that hard line position:

Hon. Wilfred Elrington

"They had some problem at the OAS office. They have always, since the incident with the young boy in Guatemala, they've expressed some reservations with respect to the OAS representative, Ms. Talamas, overseeing the activities of the OAS. Well, it's a matter that they wanted to raise with Almagro. We couldn't oppose that, but we made it very clear to them that we had no difficulty with the lady. We have worked well with her. They have difficulty with her, and they wanted to have her removed. So, that was an issue which we would have had to raise with Almagro."




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