Policy
President Bernardo Arévalo withdrew from an activity in Santiago Sacatepéquez due to a group of teachers who increased him. The government points out that the president fulfilled his agenda.
Bernardo Arévalo de León, President of the Republic. (Free Press Photo: EFE/ MARIANO MACZ)
President Arévalo participated this Friday, May 30 in the signing of a territorial agenda in Santiago Sacatepéquez, Sacatepéquez. However, a group of teachers reached the surroundings of the property in which the president was to be increasing and demanding that he go out to talk with them.
The teachers’ protest occurs at a time when the president signed and published the salary increase agreement for that sector, which does not have the endorsement of the Guatemala education workers union.
Therefore, Arévalo He withdrew from the enclosure; However, at the discretion of the Ministry of Social Communication of the Presidency, the president complied with the agenda established for that activity.
“There was no mishap. The president signed the territorial agenda with indigenous and ancestral authorities of Santiago Sacatepéquez and subsequently retired as planned,” said the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency.
In this regard, the Minister of the Interior, Francisco JiménezHe indicated that in activities such as the one headed by President Arévalo, the police are always part of the perimeter security.
He added that no report was reported that affect the president.
“Normally what we do is a treatment so that the expressions of the people do not become violent. We must not forget that this government recognizes the right to demonstration, but we must also remember that we, as a policeman, have to protect that there is no damage to third parties or social disorder,” he said Jiménez.