René Poitevin Dardón said in his classes at the School of History of the University of San Carlos at the end of the seventies, that in 1944 Guatemala arrived late for its appointment with bourgeois democracy and when it was just beginning the American intervention came in 1954 to cut short the aspirations of revolutionary nationalism.
The intervention whitened Guatemala and returned it to feudalism.
The subsequent anti-communist paranoia destroyed the basic premises of bourgeois democracy and normalized the genocidal praxis that is key to the regressive modernization of the state and the economy.
Guatemala returns to the path of bourgeois democracy, Poitevin would say, with the inauguration of Bernardo Arévalo de León and Karin Herrera Aguilar, and in this the mobilization of indigenous peoples, young people and citizens from all strata fed up with the litigation played a decisive role. malicious action of a handful of ruffians who, with the complacency of the private sector, control a good part of the courts and the legislative power.
The new government takes office just on the seventieth anniversary of the "democratic spring" led by Juan José Arévalo and Jacobo Arbenz.
By chance of history, the new president, Bernardo, is a son of Juan José, a renowned expert in security and military affairs, and a career diplomat whose electoral victory sparked hope that ethics will return to politics and public service in Guatemala.
The electoral scam aimed at paving the way to the presidency for General Ríos Montt's daughter, Zury Ríos Sosa, did not work, stripping the People's Liberation Movement of its right to participate, and now a social left organization assumes command Democrat who didn't even appear in the polls.
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