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TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump holds up an executive order withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership after signing it in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, January 23, 2017. Trump the decree Monday that effectively ends US participation in a sweeping trans-Pacific free trade agreement negotiated under former president Barack Obama. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

Trump withdraws US from TPP

The new US President has formally pulled the US out of the 12-nation trade agreement negotiated by Barack Obama.

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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro flashes a victory sign to supporters as he arrives to the Supreme Court to deliver his annual state of the nation report in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017. For more than half a century, Congress had been the body responsible for receiving the president's annual report, as established by the constitution, but the legislature lost that power by decision of the court, which authorized last week for Maduro to present his speech to magistrates. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Good riddance to Obama

Guatemalans are focused on the exit of Obama, whose foreign policy they saw as politicised in favour of left-wing causes.

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