In the 1980s, the veteran Democratic congressman from Maryland, Clarence D. Long, said that Guatemalan conservatives lived in the days of the cavemen.
These Guatemalan conservatives remain internationally famous for their voracity and lack of obligation to less favored members of society. They behave like the occupier, enemies of paying taxes and living wages, they are always willing to use force to repress any democratic claim.
In addition, they think that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is a communist and that Vice President Kamala Harris is a "Black Marxist."
Now, Ricardo Méndez Ruiz, head of the far-right Foundation against Terrorism, uses the mat of the dead of communism and accuses Bernardo Arévalo of being a Marxist, the favorite social democratic candidate to win the presidency in this second round of elections that will take place on Sunday, August 20, 2023.
Méndez boasts of appearing on the Engel List of criminals filed by the State Department, and of controlling the Public Ministry that with malicious litigation seeks to prevent Arevalista's triumph.
The troglodytes are nervous and in need of allies. Giammattei does not show his face and the lies of the Pentecostal pastors about the Arévalo government program have little echo.
Guatemala is preparing to free itself from a model of domination that is in the last phase of its political existence. Time is shortening for those responsible for keeping 70 percent of the population plunged into poverty and anti-communist paranoia.
The “ríosmonttismo” commitment to militarization and social cleansing so that the poor do not kill and assault the poor failed. They did not expect Arévalo to capture the sympathies of the people so quickly. It is useless to call him a Marxist and everything points to the fact that on August 20, Guatemala will finally start a new democratic path.
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