The US said it was not very “optimistic” about the inauguration of Bernardo Arévalo as Guatemala’s president. (EFE/Lenin Nolly)
USA He assured this Monday that he wanted the elected president Guatemala, Bernardo Arevalo de Leontake office even though he admitted it is not optimistic upon request by the Guatemalan Public Prosecutor’s Office to revoke his immunity.
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“We have every hope that Arévalo will take office, but these recent actions do not reflect great optimism,” said the US ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS). Francisco Moraduring a phone call with journalists.
However, the diplomat welcomed the fact that an election observation mission was sent to monitor the transfer of power.
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“There are setbacks, but we carry onespecially thanks to the efforts of the OAS,” he added.
The Ministry of State, headed by the Attorney General, Consuelo Porras Arguetawas heavily criticized Guatemala and abroad in recent months for attempting to interfere with and overturn the results of last summer’s general election Seed movementParty of the President-elect.
The Attorney General of Guatemala, María Consuelo Porras (EFE/FILE)
The prosecution’s prosecution of the Semilla movement began on July 12, after Arévalo de León’s surprise second-place finish in the June 25 general election.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) referred on Saturday to the recent actions of the Office of the Attorney General from Guatemala against the elected president Bernardo Arevalo and denounced that he was a “abuse of his power” about the members of the Semilla movement.
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In a statement, the organization called for “an end to the State Department’s interventionist measures that threaten the democratic order, the sovereign will of the people, the ongoing presidential transition process and the exercise of civil and political freedoms.”
At the invitation of various indigenous organizations, demonstrators have held demonstrations throughout the territory to reject the actions of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (EFE).
The public prosecutor contacted us on Friday Angel Saul Sanchezof Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes Against Cultural Heritagel, formalized its application to the Supreme Court for approval Deprivation of immunity to President-elect Bernardo Arévalo de León; to his Vice President Karin Herrera; and at least five of the party’s MPs as part of an investigation that began in 2022.
The case accuses the defendants of looting of cultural property, illegal association and influence peddling, which allegedly took place during the removal of the cultural property University of San Carlos of Guatemala in April last year. Then a group of students rebelled against the principal Walter Mazariegoswho committed fraud in the elections that made him the winner and took over the seat of the institution.
(With information from EFE and AFP)