For the fifth consecutive week, protesters gathered in front of the presidential palace on Saturday to demand Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina’s resignation after his administration was tainted by yet another corruption scandal.

Guatemala's embattled President Otto Pérez Molina fired three ministers and his spy chief Thursday, seeking to get a grip on a deepening corruption scandal that already claimed his vice president.

The heads of the Guatemalan Central Bank and social security administration were arrested Wednesday on corruption charges, prosecutors said. The case comes on top of a separate scandal over a customs bribery ring, which forced former Vice President Roxana Baldetti to resign earlier this month.

Interpol issued an international warrant for the arrest of a Guatemalan businessman accused of being involved in a tax fraud network that caused the resignation of Vice President Roxana Baldetti.

In a country where a recent history of repressive military rule has instilled a deep fear of political activism in many Guatemalans, observers have labeled the youth-led citizen movement that's taken to the streets and social media to demand an end to government corruption a “Guatemalan spring.”

Last week Guatemalan and international prosecutors announced they had issued arrest warrants for 22 people allegedly involved in a criminal network that took bribes in exchange for reduced customs duties, making millions off the foregone government revenue. Among those arrested were the current and former heads of Guatemala’s tax administration, the president of national newspaper SigloXXI and Baldetti’s private secretary, Juan Carlos Monzón.

Costa Rica’s Foreign Ministry sent a formal complain to the Swedish Embassy protesting the “disrespectful use of Costa Rica’s National Anthem” on a political satire show on TV4.

A landmark genocide case was earlier suspended following a judge's ruling on a technical issue, angering victims and rights groups.

“It’s sad that a legitimate protest has ended with deaths” the U.N.’s representative in Guatemala for the High Commission on Human Rights, Alberto Brunori, said.

Protesters were trying to draw attention to increasing electricity rates and policies of the administration of President Otto Pérez Molina.