Interior Ministry gets female chief

Anti-crime crusader Adela Camacho de Torrebiarte, 57, has been named Guatemala’s first female interior minister.

Now in charge of the nation’s police, she served since 2004 on an advisory security council of private citizens who proposed policies to the government.

She also was a founding member of the nonprofit Anguished Mothers, formed in the 1990s to pressure authorities to do more about a rising wave of kidnappings.

She replaces Carlos Vielman, who stepped down after a scandal over police investigators’ alleged involvement in last month’s killings of three Salvadoran politicians.