Montevideo, January 14 (Prensa Latina) Today's inauguration of President Bernardo Arévalo in Guatemala opens a time of hope and overcoming a period of profound authoritarian regression, says an article published here
This is the opinion of journalist Gabriel Mazzarovich, former director of the Uruguayan Communist Party (PCU) weekly newspaper El Popular.
The text states that the new government will take office amid a period of oppression and persecution with “hundreds of detainees, exiles and threats.”
Currently, more than 26 exiled journalists and more than 50 judicial officials are in the same situation. There are journalists and judicial officers in prison.
In addition, dozens of indigenous leaders, farmers, students and human rights defenders have been persecuted, imprisoned, threatened and even murdered, says Mazzarovich.
In the publication “Caras y Caretas” he points out that the transition since the elections has been an obstacle course, with armed trials, provocations, threats and all kinds of attempts to prevent the change of command.
The indigenous peoples who have called for mobilization towards Guatemala City to defend democracy in the streets know this, the text emphasizes.
He pointed out that the Interior Ministry was the “real spearhead of the coup attempt” against Arévalo and recalled Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s call for the continent’s governments to support the elected president and guarantee that he assumes the presidency. The people of Guatemala, with the authorities and the indigenous peoples at the forefront, hope that, in the midst of thousands of difficulties and limitations, a time of hope will begin, a democratic spring that this courageous and worthy people have long deserved, according to the article.
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