Attracting investments will be complicated, there will be difficulties in winning back buyers and it will be difficult to overcome the distrust of external customers, emphasized the company’s managing director Waleska Sterkel.
Faced with the blockade of the country’s roads, which the indigenous authorities had called for in support of the will of the people expressed during the elections, the representative of the private association revealed the layoffs and staff cuts that had been initiated.
It is not possible to continue working normally in sectors such as garment and textile factories, apart from the fact that some require fuel for production without it being able to arrive, he noted.
“Then there are factories that have to close because it is more profitable than continuing to produce at such high costs,” Sterkel added.
AmCham “is always against corruption because it is something that has not made many things possible in Guatemala, but blockades are not the best way to demonstrate,” he stressed, in line with power groups that see their interests compromised. But they ignore the reference to the government.
Some sectors will no longer be able to withstand the closure of ports, customs and other institutions and the associated price increases, he claimed.
In order to avoid such demonstrations in the future, Sterkel believes it is definitely necessary to strengthen institutions and review and adopt changes to certain laws.
The executive expressed before the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) its rejection of the harassment of the Public Ministry (MP), although it denied having doubts that the elected authorities (Bernardo Arévalo and Karin Herrera) will take office on January 14, 2024 .
Since October 2 last year, hundreds of thousands of people (students, farmers, community and social organizations) have joined the indigenous authorities’ call to block the country’s strategic highways.
The demonstrators peacefully reject the deputy’s continued maneuvers against the elections and demand the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras.
This investigative unit, considered an instrument of the corruption pact, ordered a search of the TSE for alleged irregularities in the votes of June 25 and August 20.
Arévalo, election winner and standard-bearer of the Semilla Movement party, accused Porras and two of his officials of encouraging a coup to prevent his seizure of power.
The protests conclude this Saturday across Guatemala at least 33 points in defense of democracy.
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