In the 1980s, veteran Maryland Democratic Congressman Clarence D. Long said that Guatemalan conservatives were living in the cave age.
These conservatives in Guatemala remain internationally famous for their voracity and lack of obligation towards the less fortunate members of society. They behave like the occupiers, enemies of paying taxes and decent wages, and are always ready to use force to repress any democratic claim.
They also think former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is a communist and Vice President Kamala Harris is a “Black Marxist.”
Now, Ricardo Méndez Ruiz, head of the far-right Foundation Against Terrorism, is using the dead man's mat of communism and accusing Bernardo Arévalo, the social democratic candidate favored to win the presidency in this second round of elections that will take place on Sunday, August 20, 2023, of being a Marxist.
Méndez boasts of appearing on the Engel List of criminals listed by the State Department, and of controlling the Public Ministry that, with malicious litigation, seeks to prevent Areval's victory.
The troglodytes are nervous and in need of allies. Giammattei does not show his face and the lies of the Pentecostal pastors about Arévalo's government program have little echo.
Guatemala is preparing to free itself from a model of domination that is in the final phase of its political existence. Time is running out for those responsible for keeping 70 percent of the population mired in poverty and anti-communist paranoia.
The "Ríosmonttism" gamble on militarization and social cleansing so that the poor do not kill and assault the poor failed. They did not expect Arévalo to capture the sympathies of the people so quickly. It is of no use to them to call him a Marxist and everything points to the fact that on August 20, Guatemala will finally begin a new democratic path.
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