Mass protests continue in Guatemala as demonstrators call for President Otto Perez Molina to step down.

In April prosecutors uncovered a customs bribery ring, which led to the resignation of Vice President Roxana Baldetti, who is suspected of taking bribes to avoid levying customs taxes. Prosecutors said her private secretary is at the center of the multimillion-dollar scam.

As reported in Reuters, President Molina addressed her resignation, saying, "This is a personal decision to submit to the needed investigations,” adding that her resignation was a "thoughtful and courageous" act.

On Saturday thousands of Guatemalans took to the streets demanding that, in the wake of the scandal, the president also leave office. As detailed in Deutsche Welle, demonstrators in 13 Guatemalan cities braved rainy weather to bang on drums and blow whistles in protests, which were organized via social media and seemed to have had no detectable leadership.

For her part, Baldetti maintains that she did not play any part in the scam, and as of yet, no charges have been actually made against her. Around 50 people are suspected of being somehow involved in the ring. Molina also denied any involvement in the scandal, which is happening at a very bad time for the current administration as the presidential elections are coming up in September.

According to the Guardian, Raquel Zelaya, the director of the ASIES think tank, said, “Baldetti’s resignation came too late to defuse the situation.”

A week after Baldetti’s resignation Guatemala’s congress appointed constitutional judge Alejandro Maldonado to be her successor.

Although there seems to be healthy debate about what the potential change up of power might mean to Guatemala, Zelaya does not see getting rid of the president as a positive thing: “If the president is forced to resign there would be a power vacuum and the consequences of that could be terrible.”