Jimmy Morales
Jimmy Morales was president of Guatemala from 2016 to 2020, the television comedian who won the election of 2015, six weeks after Pérez Molina went to prison, on the slogan neither corrupt nor a thief, with sixty-seven per cent in the run-off against Sandra Torres. He spent the four years fighting the commission that had put his predecessor there. The CICIG asked Congress in August 2017 to lift his immunity over undeclared campaign money. He declared its Colombian head, Iván Velásquez, persona non grata and ordered him out. He was overruled by the constitutional court. He tried again in August 2018 with a press conference flanked by generals and armoured cars outside the commission's offices. In January 2019 gave the commission twenty-four hours to leave the country, which the court overruled again. He did it anyway when its mandate expired in September 2019, ending the twelve years of the only prosecutor the elite had ever feared. The rest was the Fuego volcano eruption of June 2018 that killed two hundred people in San Miguel Los Lotes while the disaster agency waited. There were the embassy moved to Jerusalem two days after Washington's, and the safe third country agreement signed with the Trump administration in July 2019 under threat of tariffs, by which Honduran and Salvadoran asylum seekers would be sent to Guatemala instead of the United States. His son and brother were tried for fraud, and acquitted. He was born in Guatemala City, the son of a poor family in a Protestant church. He grew up on television in the sketch show Moralejas with his brother Sammy, in which he played a cowboy in blackface. He took a degree in theology and a master's in strategic studies. He was picked by a party founded by retired officers of the civil war, the National Convergence Front. He became its candidate when nobody had heard of him. He handed over to Giammattei in January 2020. He took a seat in the Central American Parliament, which carries immunity, and which was the point.
- Lived: 1969 CE – ?
- Nationality: Guatemalan
- Roles: president, comedian, politician
