Guatemala: Guatemala has asked Sweden and Venezuela to remove their ambassadors from the Central American country, accusing them of interfering in its internal affairs.

A government press release on Thursday, local time, said Guatemala wanted Swedish ambassador Anders Kompass and Venezuelan diplomat Elena Alicia Salcedo to depart.

Kompass is a well-known diplomat and human rights defender. A few days earlier he had announced Sweden's financial support for a United Nations-sponsored commission investigating corruption in Guatemala.

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The commission, which goes by the initials CICIG, had accused Guatemala President Jimmy Morales of corruption related to alleged illegal campaign financing while he was secretary general of his party. Morales subsequently tried unsuccessfully to expel the commission's head, Ivan Velasquez, from the country.