CODECA blockages today, Tuesday, September 19

2023-09-20 01:37:00

The Peasant Development Committee (CODECA) announced blockades throughout the country starting at six in the morning on Tuesday, September 19. The group assured that there will be no passage in any of the steps that they will cover.

At eight in the morning the authorities confirmed ten blockades that prevent passage in both lanes, but as the hours passed they freed the roads. At three in the afternoon two blocked points were still confirmed.

CODECA assures that its protest, which will prevent free movement throughout the country, is to express its rejection of the legal actions after the second electoral round and to pressure for the resignation of some authorities.

The organization accused of electricity theft, in which several of its followers have been prosecuted and sentenced, to the People’s Liberation Movement (MLP) party, a party that could not participate in the general elections with its presidential binomial.

Blocked points

Santa Rosa: km 121 jurisdiction of Chiquimulilla

Jalapa: cross to Sanarate and cross to Jalapa

Jutiapa: km 72, El Molino, route to El Salvador

Chiquimula: km 198, jurisdiction of San Juan The Hermitage

Izabal: km 244.5, La Ruidosa

Petén: Machaquilá Bridge, in Poptún

Cobán, Alta Verapaz: San Julián, Tactic and Great Chief in Chisec

Salamá, Baja Verapaz: km 130, La Cumbre de Santa Elena

Quiché: km 113, The Traps

Sololá: Four Paths

Suchitepéquez Access to Mazatenango

Retalhuleu: Castillo Armas Bridge

San Marcos: The Virgin, Tecún Umán

Huehuetenango: Xinaxjoj Village Village

El Progreso: km 54, entrance to Sanarate

Zacapa: Crossing to Río Hondo

Chimaltenango: sit-in in front of the Public Ministry

Update

Provial authorities reported that at 3:25 p.m. all points were freed.