The upcoming elections in Guatemala are marked by many twists, among which the most notable is the exclusion from the presidential race of the Movement for the Liberation of Peoples, the largest organized force in the contemporary history of the country.
your candidate Thelma Cabrera, reached fourth place in the last elections and to eliminate her electorally and guarantee the continuity of the corrupt pact, the Supreme Electoral Court, without caring about what is established in the Constitution, approved the candidacy of Zury Rios Sosa, daughter of General Efraín Ríos Montt, sentenced in 2013 to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity.
She is the favorite of oligarchs, businessmen, military personnel, turncoat politicians, fundamentalist pastors and drug traffickers affiliated with the Foundation Against Terrorism - FUNDATERROR - which controls the Public Prosecutor's Office and claims credit for having expelled the Commission against Impunity and Corruption in Guatemala in 2019.
Thanks to FUNDATERROR and narcopolitics, dozens of judges, journalists, communicators, activists and human rights defenders have been imprisoned or forced into exile. They intend to re-elect 78 percent of the current deputies to Congress and to appoint the daughter of the genocidal general or, failing that, Edmund Mulet, accused of trafficking orphaned children during the armed conflict.
It is also said that President Alejandro Giammattei agreed with Ríos, Mulet and Sandra Torres on guarantees to avoid what happened to his Honduran counterpart Juan Orlando Hernández, who was extradited to the United States just two weeks before handing over the presidency.
The only hope is that the left wins mayoralties and seats in Congress, and can continue through legal means the fight against a system that has been worn down by long decades of abuse and atrocities.
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