Although the crab crust controls the Public Ministry and a good part of Congress and the courts, and tries to prevent the deputies of the Seed match of President Arévalo can act as a caucus and lead commissions, another type of alliance is being built in favor of a new governability in Guatemala.
Arévalo has established alliances with right-wing mayors and deputies who are afraid of the strength that citizen oversight has gained, and to this is added the decision of the Executive to open the call to the entire population to elect departmental governors, usually appointed by the president to pay political favors or reinforce cliques of white-collar thieves.
It is encouraging that this measure has encouraged indigenous women with academic training and local leadership experience to come forward.
The absence of indigenous people in the cabinet was initially criticised, but alongside new appointments in high and middle management, it is undeniable that progressive indigenous people are gaining visibility, such as the deputy Sonia Raguay Gutiérrez in the Board of Directors of Congress.
This worries the most rancid part of the oligarchic far right, including the Arzú clan, one of the five most powerful oligarchic trunks, whose top leader Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen, who died in 2018, left his relatives and close associates parasitizing in Congress and in the capital's municipality.
His eldest son, Congressman Alvarito Jr., has been much talked about due to his opposition to the public treasury continuing to cover his expenses on food, drinks, cell phones, medical insurance and other perks.
Since 2020, the indigenous deputy, Vicenta Jerónimo, confronted Alvarito for insisting on wanting to eat with public money and this funny example shows how Guatemala is fighting to leave behind the neo-fascist conservatism that excludes the majority.
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