Guatemala in limbo
Guatemala in limbo
Ollantay Itzamná 28 September 2015
The impeachment and arrest of President Otto Pérez Molina is a shrewd move by the Guatemalan elites to save the criminal bosses currently running the country.
Taking away the immunity and arresting President Otto Pérez Molina, whose government was promoted and financed by corporations and the military, who also took over its ministries, is an attempt to “redeem”, through his “sacrifice”, the Barabbases of Guatemala. Those Barabbases (from Barabbas, the insurrectionary who, according to the accounts of the Passion of Christ, was freed by Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of releasing Jesus) who, in Guatemala, have been robbing and pillaging the State and the people’s wealth for almost two centuries.
Now that the corrupt criminal ringleaders have been identified and arrested or imprisoned, will the anti-corruption heroes reveal the names of the corporate fraudsters who lead the corruptors’ criminal network?
In the city squares, will citizens, students, civil society keep demanding the punishment of the businessmen who have been bribing a corrupt government? Will the rich continue to call through their media for citizen mobilization against corrupting businessmen and high-ranking military? How does Guatemala look now, with an arrested and humiliated head of State, in the eyes of the international community?
It was truly impressive to witness how the main culprits, over the last 4 months of urban outrage, blended in the crowd of protestors demanding the resignation and punishment of their pawn government that had siphoned off the corruption booty. Not only they ended up directing and planning the demonstrations, but they also managed to successfully wipe away any lingering suspicion against them.
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