In the emblematic country of the atrocities committed during the Cold War in the American continent, preyed on by oligarchs, soldiers, drug politicians and fundamentalist pastors, Guatemala, the possibility grows that the presidential binomial of Semilla, the center-left movement led by Bernardo Arévalo and Karin Herrera, win the presidency in the second round on August 20.
Arévalo, an academic and politician, is the son of former President Juan José Arévalo, who together with Jacobo Arbenz led the failed attempt to modernize national capitalism, the October Revolution frustrated in 1954 by the anti-communist paranoia of the United States, the oligarchy and the conservative clergy. .
Almost seventy years after that infamy, Guatemala is about to resume the legacy of revolutionary nationalism.
The Semilla candidates will face Sandra Torres of the National Union of Hope, an enemy of the CICIG ?International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala?, linked to drug trafficking, ex-convict and with 23 open legal cases.
Given the electoral disaster of the daughter of General Ríos Montt, Torres is now the candidate of the «Guatemalan Frankenstein», as Piero Gleijeses called the death machine set up with money and advice from the Kennedy and Johnson governments.
Winds of change return, as on the eve of the 1944 Revolution, and citizen repudiation of the debasement of society and the degradation of the art of politics by the criminal and regressive scab that will continue to control a good number of mayors and seats in Congress.
Bernardo and Karin can sweep the second round and begin to reverse the inhumanity that Guatemala has suffered since 1954.
The intense activity in the virtual world heralds that the frankenstein it is not invincible and a new light is opening on the Central American horizon.
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