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The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, spoke on April 23 for the capture of four former executives of the 48 cantons of Totonicapán.
The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, at a press conference. (Free Press Photo: Óscar Vásquez)
The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, has ruled on April 23 about the capture of the former president of the 48 cantons of Totonicapán and current Vice Minister of Development, Luis Pacheco and another 4 former members of the Board of Directors of 2023, arrests confirmed by the Public Ministry.
The president expressed his outrage at the captures, which He described as “an attack against democracy” And he showed his support for the directive of the year 2023, which says “It is being criminalized.”
“The coup of the Public Ministry is not only a blow against Luis Pacheco and his companions of the Board of Directors of 48 cantons of 2023. It is not a blow only against the leadership of indigenous and ancestral peoples. It is an artero blow against the people of Guatemala “Said Arévalo.
“The president said that the Attorney General of the Public Ministry, Consuelo Porras,” “This is the time to go out to demand, peacefully, that this dark cycle of harassment ends, that these crouched criminals in the Public Ministry maintain against the country“The president stressed.
Luis Pacheco, who led protests against the Attorney General Consuelo Porras in 2023, He was appointed Deputy Minister on August 22, 2024.
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