Rights Action have posted a short photo essay from the Dec. 7th march through the streets of Guatemala City in support of democracy and against the ‘Pacto de Corruptos’.
On December 7, thousands of Guatemalans – Indigenous and ladino – joined President-elect Bernardo Arevalo and VP-elect Karin Herrera in a five hour march through the streets of Guatemala City. The march began before the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), continued to the Constitutional Court (CC), before ending at the Office of the Public Prosecutor (MP).
Since June 26 (day after the first round of elections), corrupted judges and prosecutors in the SCJ, CC and MP, have been orchestrating an endless stream of ‘criminalization’ attacks on the electoral process and results, on the Semilla Party (that Arevalo and Herrera are members of), on members of the Semilla Party, and on the President and VP-elects directly!
On December 8, the MP’s office fired the latest attack on the elections. In a press conference, prosecutors Rafael Curruchiche and Leonor Morales demanded that the general elections be annulled due to alleged anomalies in the electoral documents.
You can read the full piece, with links and lots of photos, here, Marching With the President and VP-elects for Democracy and a New Direction for Guatemala.
Categories: Accompaniment, Corruption, Criminalisation, Guatemala, Human Rights, Impunity, Indigenous peoples, Justice, Legal, Lobbying, Presidential Elections, Solidarity in Action
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