On January 1, 2023, the 48 cantons of Totonicapán announced that they had chosen their new directive, chaired by Luis Pacheco.
On October 2, Pacheco led, together with indigenous and civil organizations, a national protest which extended for 106 days. This was against the actions of the Public Ministry (MP), in which the organizations described as interference in the general elections, in which the presidential binomial of the Semilla Party was elected.
The blockades nationwide began on October 2, 2023 and concluded the early hours of January 15, 2024, after Bernardo Arévalo and Karin Herrera assumed the presidency and vice presidency of the country.
Arévalo and Herrera went to the headquarters of the MP, where a protest was carried out, and thanked the support of indigenous peoples for defending democracy in Guatemala.
“The history books are going to see back and remember the moment when, together and united, inspired by the leadership of the ancestral peoples, the people of Guatemala managed to rescue spring,” said Arévalo in front of the headquarters of the MP.
The blockades extended in more than 80 points throughout the country, and those who directed these peaceful manifestations were the 48 cantons of Totonicapán, next to civil society.
On August 22, 2024, the MEM announced that Pacheco, who had completed his management against the 48 cantons, would assume as a vice minister of sustainable development.
Who is Luis Pacheco?
Luis Pacheco has Pensum closed in the Bachelor of Legal and Social Sciences, lawyer and notary, at the University Center of the West of the University of San Carlos de Guatemala.
He was president of the Board of Directors of the 48 cantons of Totonicapán in 2023. In addition, he served as communal mayor of the Juchanep community, Totonicapán, during that same year.
The MEM explained that Pacheco participated as a speaker in the issue of peaceful manifestations and dialogues with peoples at the headquarters of the United Nations Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and in the twenty -second permanent forum of indigenous issues, at the UN headquarters in New York.
He has also received multiple awards at the national level for his participation and activism in favor of democracy, human rights and community services, details the MEM.
The Vice Ministry of Sustainable Development of the MEM is in charge of the processes of dialogue and consultation with indigenous peoples in mining and hydroelectric issues.
On that occasion, the Deputy Minister said that his appointment did not respond to agreements with the president during the demonstrations he led in the transition period, but applied through a call to the position.