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The fight against corruption crosses borders and alliances between corrupt people, too. These alliances are increasingly visible and involve individuals and organizations that have benefited from putting public power at the service of private interest.
In Mexico, the Fourth Transformation, led by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, without charging large taxes to the elite and with the resources that previously went into the pockets of white-collar thieves, managed to lift more than 9 million inhabitants out of poverty .
In neighboring Guatemala, the newly minted government of Bernardo Arévalo and the Semilla Movement are fighting to stop the shoplifting that rots the courts, Congress and the Public Ministry.
Long decades of abuses created complicities between businessmen and politicians who profit from the absence of regulations on agro-export and mining extractivism, and from robberies of the treasury.
Without the slightest ethical qualms, powerful media outlets protect the continuity of that model and a case that draws attention is that of the television station owned by Ricardo Salinas Pliego, a well-known tax evader who, through TV Azteca Guatemala, legitimizes and covers up the screw. criminal organization that controls the Public Ministry and in connivance with the equally corrupt magistrates of the Constitutional Court intends to annul the Semilla Movement and remove President Arévalo.
Salinas Pliego bends to the regressive forces and does not mind going against the current of the citizen will. However, its problems in Mexico, the electoral disaster of the Mexican right and the strength of the citizen mobilization that will put Claudia Sheinbaum in the presidential chair, are very bad news for the corrupt and the parasites who hinder the construction of a brighter future. democratic in Mexico and Guatemala.
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