If everything goes as expected in 2024, Bernardo Arevalo will take the presidency of Guatemala on January 14, and Claudia Sheinbaum will win the presidential elections in Mexico by a wide margin.
For the first time in the republican history of both countries, two figures from the academy will have it in their hands to direct the destiny of all sectors, the middle classes and, in particular, the forgotten majorities of the city and the countryside, among which Indigenous peoples who have resisted colonialism for more than five centuries are included.
Both Arévalo and Sheinbaum face the destruction inherited by decades of neoliberal looting and the operation of criminal organizations embedded in public power.
Both will face the most regressive part of the business community that, in alliance with political crooks, misinforms the population, although in Mexico they have not been able to hide the overwhelming progress made by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and which raises great expectations among Guatemalan and Mexican migrants. in United States.
Arévalo and Sheinbaum share an appreciation for science and education in the service of justice, the restoration of human dignity and the conservation of biodiversity.
Guatemala will have a lot to learn from the progress made in Mexico in these matters, such as, for example: making books available to citizens, as demonstrated by the enormous work carried out by the Brigades to Read in Freedom, led by Paco Ignacio Taibo II.
In Guatemala there is a lot of optimism about the advent of a new spring after long decades of obscurantism and tyranny, and in Mexico it is proven that it is possible to reduce the strength of narcopolitics and restore ethics in politics and public service.
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