Ollantay Itzamna
The current judicial political deployment that occurs in Guatemala, from the epicenter of the State itself, against the Guatemalans of good will who fight against corruption, is a confirmation that the problem does not lie in “corrupt officials”, but in the same bicentennial corrupt “anti-rights” nation state.
While popular sectors, even with festive expressions, protest against corruption, in the streets, for more than a continuous month, demanding the resignation of the Attorney General, Consuelo Porras, and two other judicial officials, accused of “coup plotters,” The corrupt, implacable state machinery crushes the constitutional rights of those who oppose its will.
In a matter of hours, at the insistence of the OAS/USA to denounce the side of the corrupt disobedient to Washington, this side, in exercise of state power, appointed 13 new judges of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ, for 10 months functions), formed the Investigative Commission to judge 8 judges of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE). In addition to accelerating the debate for the approval of the General National Budget (PGN, 2024).
Simultaneously and accelerated, the outgoing CSJ opened a pre-trial process against the Director of Citizen Registries, for “abuse of authority”, for having denied the registration of the political party Prosperidad Ciudadana, for the recent 2023 general elections.
The Public Ministry (MP), to “deconcentrate” the social protests against the Congress of the Republic, with court orders against 28 denounced persons, proceeded to search homes and arrest those denounced for “sedition” in the case of the protests against the questioned Rector electoral process at the San Carlos University, in 2022.
In addition, the MP will request to withdraw the parliamentary immunity of the current Representative Bernardo Arévalo, president-elect, and other deputies of the Semilla party, with a view to preventing the presidential inauguration, set for next January 14.
Investigations are already underway against peasant and indigenous leaders who called or directed the recent indefinite national strike demanding “respect for democracy.”
Why does the State deploy its machinery against the “heroes of democracy”?
That’s what it’s about. From the State. Not from officials. And, for some years now, popular Indo-peasant sectors have been denouncing that the nation State is a failure or fraud for the great majority of the country, and that the way out of said state crisis is a process of Popular and Plurinational Constituent Assembly (ACPP). ). There are even thematic proposals to be addressed as part of the content for the new Plurinational Political Constitution.
But, neither the Semilla party, nor Bernardo Arévalo, nor the mobilized indigenous “heroes of democracy” bosses, much less the urban anti-corruption sector, want to give themselves the “opportunity” to imagine another country, another State, another legal system… racism? fear of change? Do you suspect losing imaginary privileges?
In this painful postponement of profound structural changes, for a new country and new Plurinational State, North American interference, which from time to time creates “digestible” “social tranquilizers” for the people of Guatemala, has broad responsibility.
The last obvious and shameful thing for the aboriginal peoples was the “Mayan revolution” last October demanding the restoration of the corrupt bosses’ democracy, and the re-oxygenation of the racist Creole State, far from promoting the Plurinational Constituent process.
In these color or folkloric revolutions, the oligarchy corrupts momentarily and internally confronts, and the American actors always emerge unscathed. Those who suffer are the subordinate actors who “war” to restore the estate of the nation state and its employer democracy.
2015, and its painful epilogue, with dozens of subordinate actors currently ostracized or criminalized, has to be a performative lesson to not continue exhausting the struggles in dismissal demands. People of Guatemala must constitute a Plurinational State, new institutions, new legal systems, new life projects, hopefully through a Constituent process.
