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Jimmy Morales

b. 1969 · 21st century

Jimmy Morales (born 1969) is a Guatemalan former television comedian who was president of Guatemala from 2016 to 2020. Elected as an anti-corruption outsider after the fall of Otto Pérez Molina, he turned against the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala when it investigated his family and party, and he declined to renew its mandate, ending its work in 2019.

Jimmy Morales — Image: Gobierno de Guatemala · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Jimmy Morales. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/jimmy-morales
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