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Guatemala is approaching a clash between the executive branch and corrupt Congressmen who refuse to declare a state of emergency that would allow President Bernardo Arévalo to deal with the destruction of road infrastructure caused by heavy rains, lack of maintenance and the poor quality of materials used in often unfinished projects.
It is becoming clear that at least eighty slackers, led by the former president of Congress and deputy for Sololá, Allan Rodríguez, together with the "cliques" in the Public Ministry and in the courts, form the driving force of the kleptocracy and narcopolitics that attempts to wear down the Arévalo government and its ministers with excessive summons and simulations of oversight that were never done during previous governments.
While during Alejandro Giammattei's administration they approved eleven states of calamity; now, as the executive does not offer them money under the table, they refuse to declare a state of calamity to address the emergency.
President Arévalo has ordered the Ministry of Defense and the Army Engineering Battalion to work on restoring communication routes that have collapsed due to heavy rains.
For many years, white-collar thieves and oligarchic businessmen plundered the budget of the Ministry of Communications and Public Works, and now through legal tricks and misinformation, they accuse the president and his party, the Semilla Movement, of refusing to negotiate and lacking political skills.
Arévalo has come out to meet them by making public his asset declaration and we will see if, as the days go by, this attempt to hinder the governability of the country does not result in another ambush for the “deputies”, as has happened in recent years.
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