{"id":19657,"date":"2023-09-06T13:12:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=19657"},"modified":"2023-09-06T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T22:11:40","slug":"institutional-coup-in-guatemala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/institutional-coup-in-guatemala\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert warns of an institutional coup in Guatemala after Ar\u00e9valo&#039;s victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19666\" style=\"width: 641px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19666\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GUATEMALA-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Expert warns of an institutional coup in Guatemala after Ar\u00e9valo&#039;s victory\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GUATEMALA-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GUATEMALA-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GUATEMALA-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GUATEMALA-18x12.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GUATEMALA-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GUATEMALA-696x464.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GUATEMALA-1068x712.jpeg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Manuel Ortiz P360P<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Radio P360: The political situation in Guatemala is complicated\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/6mceJ6BifWmSwdl7Xbt7Kg?si=NZ4f88y9QJST68w1eJ2Fbw&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the election result that left President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BArevalodeLeon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bernardo Arevalo<\/a>, the political transition has become complicated, leaving a tense situation that generated an institutional coup d&#039;\u00e9tat in Guatemala, as stated by the president-elect himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the moment, there is not a coup d&#039;\u00e9tat as aggressive as has been seen on other occasions, however, the country is going through a difficult situation, as political scientist Mynor Alonso said in a chat with Manuel Ortiz during the radio program Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press in collaboration with Marcos Guti\u00e9rrez from \u00ab<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hechoencalifornia1010.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hecho en California<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mynor Alonso, who is part of the mission of observation and documentation of the elections in Guatemala by <a href=\"https:\/\/globalexchange.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Exchange<\/a>, an organization based in San Francisco and of which he is also a member <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/\">Peninsula 360 Press<\/a> and other organizations, said that there is an attempted coup d&#039;\u00e9tat by a group of people who are in control of some institutions, few, but they are key in this transition process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said that there is currently an abuse of the Guatemalan justice system, and they are trying to prevent the Semilla Movement, the party to which Ar\u00e9valo belongs, from assuming power on January 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&quot;It is not a coup d&#039;\u00e9tat as we are used to in Latin America with many soldiers or imposition with violence, what is really happening is more of a psychological war, something more social and there is also the discreet but constant abuse of legal resources,&quot; said Mynor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few days ago, a court pressured the civil registry to rule that the formation of the Semilla Movement was illegal and to temporarily suspend its legal status, under an alleged investigation into false signatures; however, this fraud has not yet been proven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In any case, this is illegal, because in cases like these the person responsible is accused and not the entire political party, in this way the intentions against the Semilla Movement party can be seen very clearly, he stressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also said that what they are looking for is to use legal resources against the Semilla Movement and in this way not leave any candidate from this party any chance of being elected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is expected, he stressed, is that the legal system will react to these provocations in the correct manner, that the necessary investigations will be carried out and that the truth will come to light, so that, if nothing is proven, the transition of powers will be carried out in the best possible way, as the law dictates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Otherwise, if the Semilla Movement were to be cancelled, which would be a step backwards in the Guatemalan legal system, the deputies in Congress would have to remain alone, as independents, but they would be deprived of certain essential rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The transition is looking more complicated for Guatemala every day, but it is hoped that justice will determine the next steps and that we will be able to reach January without further damage to the citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/bernardo-arevalo\/\">Bernardo Ar\u00e9valo: &quot;This victory belongs to the people of Guatemala&quot;<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tras el resultado electoral que dej\u00f3 como presidente a Bernardo Ar\u00e9valo, la transici\u00f3n pol\u00edtica se ha vuelto complicada, dejando una situaci\u00f3n tensa que gener\u00f3 un golpe de Estado institucional en Guatemala, dicho as\u00ed por el propio presidente electo. Por el momento, no se vive un golpe de Estado tan agresivo como se ha visto en [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-usworld"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19669,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19657\/revisions\/19669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}