Aadded to the problems by the maritime and insular territorial dispute with Belize, of passports, since on the cover of the new card is drawn a map of Central America, which includes the neighboring territory with a dotted line, has caused annoyance in the Belizean authorities.
There are reports of harassment and bad treatment on the part of the authorities of Belize, according to Guatemalan citizens who have traveled to that country.
Deputy Alvaro Trujillo, of the caucus democratic freedom renewed (leader), recalled that he is has summoned three times to the controller of migration, Manuel Vicente Roca, and raised the issue with Siglo 21 Newspaper. This followed threats made in the Belize Media last month by the unelected Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse who stated stated that his county is unhappy with Guatemala's new Central American Passport that shows Belize as part of Central America and with a dotted line demarcating the adjacency zone between Belize and Guatemala. The Minister had threatened that his country would not honour the Guatemala passport and may consider compelling Guatemala citizens to purchase special entry permits to Belize.
Trujillo said that has received complaints that Guatemalans, mainly of Petén, have suffered harassment by migration officers in Belize when they present the new passport to enter Belize and that the Belizean immigration officers have even defaced this national document of Guatemala.
The DGM, Fernando Lucero, spokesman acknowledged that there is such a problem, which is derived from a dotted line that differs from those that divide the rest of the countries in the region.
We tried to get the version of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Office of communication, but there was no response at the end of the Edition.
Source: Siglo 21 Newspaper Guatemala