Thousands march in Guatemala to pressure president to resign

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By Sofia Menchu and Enrique Pretel GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Guatemalans took to the streets on Thursday to demand the resignation of President Otto Perez, who has refused to quit in the face of accusations by his attorney general that he was involved in a lucrative customs racket. Carrying banners proclaiming, "Guatemala has no president," demonstrators staged marches from the capital to the regions while businesses ranging from McDonald's restaurants to brewery Cerveceria Centro Americana closed in support of the protest. "It can't be that he looks the other way and ignores the fact the people don't want him any more," one marcher, publicist Felipe Flores, 25, said of Perez.




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