The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) filed six requests for impeachment, seeking the authorization of a criminal investigation against the elected presidential pair and deputies who spoke in favor of the San Carlos movement, which rejected the imposition of Walter Mazariegos as President of the USAC.
Rights Action have translated an article by Alexander Valdéz, published in Prensa Comunitaria, itself under attack by the Pacto de Corruptos.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) filed a request for impeachment at the Criminal Management office of the Courts Tower, against the elected president Bernardo Arévalo and the elected vice-president Karin Herrera, as well as the deputies Samuel Pérez and Raúl Amílcar Barrera Robles, of the Semilla party; Carlos Barreda, of the VOS party; and Adán Pérez y Pérez, of the Winaq party.
As anticipated by the investigating entity, the petitions to investigate the elected presidential pair and the deputies were made within the case fabricated by the Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes against the Cultural Heritage of the Nation, against the resistance of the University of San Carlos (USAC) that rejected the imposition of Walter Mazariegos as rector.
The request to investigate the officials is based solely on publications on social networks, in which the accused are in favor of the resistance takeover of the USAC, which arose as a result of fraud in the election of the university authority.
“Following up on the ‘USAC Takeover Case: Political Spoils’, the MP, through the Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes against the Cultural Heritage of the Nation, filed six requests for the processing of the proceedings for the withdrawal of pre-trial against six people,” the MP indicates in the social network X.
Last Thursday, the Prosecutor’s Office conducted 31 raids and announced 27 arrest warrants against students, deans of faculties of the University of San Carlos, lawyers, activists and the former Human Rights Prosecutor, Jordán Rodas.
Among the orders issued were the names of student leaders, professors and deans who were members of the General Coordinator of Students of the USAC, a group that denounced and opposed the illegal election of Mazariegos as de facto president.
You can read the full piece, here, Guatemala’s Public Prosecutor requests withdrawal of immunity from prosecution of Bernardo Arevalo and Karin Herrera, including a link to the original piece.
Rights Action states that, “It is impossible to keep up with the ‘death by a 1000 cuts’ attacks being carried out by the ‘covenant of the corrupt’ government and traditional elites against the victory of President-elect Bernardo Arevalo and VP-elect Karin Herrera of the Semilla Party.”
They have provided links and addresses for people to take further action with their elected representatives in the US and Canada as well as providing regular updates on their Guatemala Election Watch series. You can see more, here, Rights Action Newsblasts, including links to subscribe to their regular updates.
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