Government authorities of President Bernardo Arévalo provide press conference this Wednesday, March 19 in relation to the mandatory insurance for vehicles.
Secretary Santiago Palomo said: the people of Guatemala elected this government to enforce the law.
He added that the blockages are about to be resolved.
According to Palomo, the regulation worked for a year with the organizations that responded to the resolution of the Constitutional Court, which exhorted to implement the regulation.
Also indicated that in blockages There are minority and opportunistic detractors of the government.
“We call for calm, since many of these blockages are in the process of being resolved,” he said.
He announced that there will be a dialogue to listen to the legitimate concerns of the majorities.
The Minister of the Interior, Francisco Jiménez, reported that since this morning the protocol began to remove the blockages.
According to the official, within the blocked points there are infiltrations of criminal groups.
He assured that the regulation is based on persons and families, since it is the fulfillment of the law.
He added that there are many deaths due to traffic accidents and that the survivors are not covered by insurance.
He stressed that they are willing to dialogue and recalled that the agreements were discussed with several organizations.
According to Jiménez, some protesters have used pirate taxis and mentioned a case in Bethania, where a truck was stolen. He added that the owner will suffer losses because the products are perishable.
He indicated that the National Civil Police has already started operating to release the routes.
“We use the appropriate protocol because our interest is not the use of force as such,” he added.
Jiménez said: “If this exercise – manifestar – effectively implies the one that affects the population, we will take the measures that according to our protocols are established, the measures of the protocols are very clear, that is, there is an approach with the group that blocks to invite them to withdraw and reach some agreement, but where the blockages effectively the analysis criteria is that they considerably damage the rights of others, We have to intervene and if there is no adequate response to make the proportional use of force, that is our indication to security forces. ”
“This powerfully attracts our attention because this generates dismissal and there are actors in the country, politicians who are interested in feeding that destabilization, we have to be clear, we are for the right of the demonstration, but we cannot allow the exercise of a right to be violent,” added the Minister of the Interior.
He affirmed that in the demonstrations there is infiltration of criminal groups and that this causes instability.