{"id":24710,"date":"2024-07-15T10:36:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T17:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=24710"},"modified":"2024-07-15T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T22:22:22","slug":"duel-between-thieves-and-authorities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/duel-between-thieves-and-authorities-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Duel between thieves and authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this note:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-24710-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Viviana-4578417.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Viviana-4578417.mp3\">https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Viviana-4578417.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 Ar\u00e9valo 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.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is becoming clear that at least eighty slackers, led by the former president of Congress and deputy for Solol\u00e1, Allan Rodr\u00edguez, together with the &quot;cliques&quot; in the Public Ministry and in the courts, form the driving force of the kleptocracy and narcopolitics that attempts to wear down the Ar\u00e9valo government and its ministers with excessive summons and simulations of oversight that were never done during previous governments.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While during Alejandro Giammattei&#039;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.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Ar\u00e9valo has ordered the Ministry of Defense and the Army Engineering Battalion to work on restoring communication routes that have collapsed due to heavy rains.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ar\u00e9valo 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 \u201cdeputies\u201d, as has happened in recent years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>More from the author:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/no-more-genocides\/\">No more genocides<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escucha esta nota: &nbsp; Guatemala se aproxima a un choque de trenes entre el poder ejecutivo y los diputados corruptos del Congreso que se niegan a declarar el estado de calamidad que le permitir\u00eda al presidente, Bernardo Ar\u00e9valo, enfrentar la destrucci\u00f3n de la infraestructura vial causada por las fuertes lluvias, la falta de mantenimiento y [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":24711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-opinion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24719,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710\/revisions\/24719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}