Efforts to prevent the inauguration of the president-elect Bernardo Arevalo in Guatemala and the malicious litigation conducted by their opponents in the courts, the Board of Directors of Congress and the Public Ministry have classified them as a slow-motion coup.
The courts do not have electoral jurisdiction, but they decide to suspend the Semilla party and Congress then leaves the members of its bench without a party, so that, as independents, they cannot access positions on the Board of Directors controlled by the corrupt.
President Giammattei appeared before the cameras acknowledging Arévalo's triumph, but hinted that on January 14, 2024, he would hand over the presidential sash not to the winner of the elections, but to his cronies in Congress, who would name a provisional president and convene to new elections.
In charge of the operation are, among others, the Foundation against Terrorism, the prosecutor Consuelo Porras, alias "Dr. Comosiama", and the prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche, in charge of covering the robberies of Giammattei and his concubine Miguel Martínez.
Nervous about the ghost of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, extradited to the United States, Martínez and Giammattei were surprised in a telephone conversation in which, anguished, Martínez calls "doctor comosiama" an "old whore" and "indio cerote" to the prosecutor Curruchiche.
That is the level of institutional deterioration of the State, and evidence of the wear suffered by a model of domination that is living its last days.
It is difficult for the "clique" of oligarchs, the military, drug politicians and evangelical pastors to give in and civilly accept Arévalo's triumph. They seem to care little about the uncertainty and social irritation generated by malicious litigation that could end up turning into popular anger.
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