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A new electoral robbery in Guatemala

A new robbery in the elections in Guatemala
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The upcoming elections in Guatemala are marked by many twists, most notably the exclusion from the presidential race of the Movement for the Liberation of the Peoples, the largest organized force in the country's contemporary history. 

your candidate Thelma Cabrera, reached fourth place in the past elections and to eliminate her electorally and guarantee the continuity of the corrupt pact, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, regardless of what is established in the Constitution, approved the candidacy of Zury Rios Sosa, daughter of General Efraín Ríos Montt sentenced in 2013 to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity.

She is the favorite of oligarchs, businessmen, soldiers, political defectors, fundamentalist pastors and drug traffickers related to the Foundation against Terrorism "FUNDATERROR", which controls the Public Ministry and claims credit for having expelled the Commission against Impunity and Corruption in Guatemala in 2019. 

Thanks to FUNDATERROR and narcopolitics, dozens of judges, journalists, communicators, activists and human rights defenders have been imprisoned or gone into exile. They intend to re-elect 78 percent of the current deputies to Congress and impose the daughter of the genocidal general or, failing that, Edmund Mulet, accused of trafficking orphaned children during the armed conflict. 

It is also said that President Alejandro Giammattei agreed with Ríos, Mulet and Sandra Torres guarantees to prevent what happened to his Honduran counterpart Juan Orlando Hernández, extradited to the United States just two weeks after handing over the presidency.

This being the case, the only hope is for the left to win mayoralties and seats in Congress, and can continue the fight against the system worn out by long decades of abuses and atrocities through legal means.

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Ramon Gonzalez Ponciano
Ramon Gonzalez Ponciano
Guatemalan-Mexican. PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and master's degree in the same discipline from Stanford University, where he has also been Tinker Professor, visiting researcher and affiliated researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies. He was visiting professor of the Education Abroad Program of the University of California in Mexico and collaborates as a guest lecturer in the Spanish Heritage, Continuing Studies programs and in the department of Spanish teaching at Stanford.

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