2023-10-13 08:04:41
Guatemala is on the brink of chaos. The current political crisis is due, in short, to the impossibility or ineffectiveness of seeking only legal solutions. This derives from the co-option of the main legal institutions of the country by incapable people, with bad faith, blind to the terrible scope of using the law, in itself correct, for purposes of long-term catastrophic effects, which, although seen with myopia, seem be great victories. The solutions must be based on political criteria, mixed with legal criteria, even if they mean the temporary abandonment of legalism that is counterproductive and disastrous for governability.
Acting if you no longer have support is different from when you have it, an error reduces it and can make it minimal.
Mario Antonio Sandoval
Solving them implies governability pacts, admitting the failure of the political and legal when they want to apply pure ones. If there are situations derived from an unforeseen overflow, it is the obligation of those who can contribute something to participate actively, not contemplatively, to request or order the suspension of overflowing actions, even if the overflow is planned or spontaneous. The latter with the risk of infiltration by elements whose task is to help create that chaos. Nor should we fall into the trap of seeking solutions to all multi-centennial problems, but only to the most recent ones that have gotten out of control.
It is no longer justified to look for culprits but rather to look towards the present and near future. Eliminate egos and apply the laws, but without using them as a pretext to achieve a victory condemned to be pyrrhic, because its effects will be much worse than the possibility of not obtaining it. There is good sense, even if it forces us to renounce or not apply rights—which is not obligatory. The essence of the solution is to agree to give in something, not equivalent to capitulation but to calm, mature thinking. Also abandon the clumsy idea of considering a decision a defeat to avoid terrible political, ideological, ethnic or religious chaos.
Guilt must be admitted. Giammattei, accept it as the most responsible. Her stubbornness can destroy the country, where she has lost all credibility because, to begin with, her pathological amnesia to fulfill every promise before taking office. Buying the powers of the State or putting them at its service to disrespect the electoral result for fear of being tried for corruption, and so on, prevents it from giving in to the demand, now from the entire country, to beg Consuelo Porras and company to resign from their positions . The constitutional option of using force against demonstrations and blockades will undoubtedly be applied at the discretion of those sent to break them up, because it is subjective.
The 48 Cantons demonstrated their strength, but they will be victims of their success because they insisted on not giving in before Porras left. They had to suspend the blockades. Now they can’t because the same demand was spread throughout the country. The support in this from other Mayan groups gave the initiators responsibility for all acts of violence, including the thugs. Yesterday the video circulated of the attempt to lynch two farmers by several unknown people. This demonstrates the impossibility of avoiding events that cause rejection by the general population. Lockdowns affect everyone. Not understanding it is suicidal.
Arévalo was able to respond immediately and in the same way to Giammattei, who had given him the power of head of state. He lost support by not seizing the political moment to stop the blockades. The meeting will have a dubious effect because the new groups already have very diverse origins, and many are actions of people hired by the government, identified and filmed. The CC’s authorization to use police violence “if necessary” means multiplicity of repression, although the police refuse to obey orders of this kind. It is clear: in this crisis there is no single winner; just a town of losers.
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