{"id":93498,"date":"2017-03-11T04:53:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T09:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93498"},"modified":"2017-03-11T04:53:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T09:53:06","slug":"guatemalan-leader-accepts-responsibility-for-deadly-rehab-home-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/11\/guatemalan-leader-accepts-responsibility-for-deadly-rehab-home-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemalan leader accepts responsibility for deadly rehab home fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_93499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93499\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Toma_de_posesi\u00f3n_de_Presidente_guatemalteco_24277870982_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93499\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Toma_de_posesi\u00f3n_de_Presidente_guatemalteco_24277870982_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has accepted the state's responsibility for the death of almost 40 minors in a fire at a rehabilitation center for abused teenagers. (Photo by Presidencia El Salvador from San Salvador, El Salvador, Am\u00e9rica Central (Toma de posesi\u00f3n de Presidente guatemalteco) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"512\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Toma_de_posesi\u00f3n_de_Presidente_guatemalteco_24277870982_cropped.jpg 512w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Toma_de_posesi\u00f3n_de_Presidente_guatemalteco_24277870982_cropped-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has accepted the state&#8217;s responsibility for the death of almost 40 minors in a fire at a rehabilitation center for abused teenagers. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AToma_de_posesi%C3%B3n_de_Presidente_guatemalteco_(24277870982)_(cropped).jpg\">Presidencia El Salvador from San Salvador, El Salvador, Am\u00e9rica Central (Toma de posesi\u00f3n de Presidente <\/a>guatemalteco) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MEXICO CITY\u2014Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has accepted the state&#8217;s responsibility for the death of almost 40 minors in a fire at a rehabilitation center for abused teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are grieved, yes, very much grieved and convinced that these things should not happen, and convinced that we cannot place our responsibility as a country on anyone but ourselves,&#8221; Morales said in a Friday speech, as quoted by the AGN news agency.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest data, 37 minors died this week as a result of the fire at the government-run rehabilitation center of Hogar Virgen de la Asuncion, located in the San Jose Pinula suburb of Guatemala City.<\/p>\n<p>Guatemala has announced three days of national mourning for the victims of the fire, which reportedly broke out after one of the minors housed at the center set a mattress ablaze following a riot.<\/p>\n<p>According to local media reports, about 60 adolescents escaped the rehabilitation center on Tuesday, protesting against violence and low food quality.<\/p>\n<p>According to Morales, an investigation has been launched to determine the exact circumstances of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY\u2014Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has accepted the state&#8217;s responsibility for the death of almost 40 minors in a fire &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[16466,16465],"class_list":["post-93498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-guatemala-shelter-fire","tag-jimmy-morales","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}