By Fernando Boxes
Guatemalan corrupt politicians, accustomed to manipulating, lying and imposing; It didn’t take them but eight days to ignore the results of the presidential elections. After the democratic party on June 25 and their acceptance of defeat on their social networks, the #PactodeCorruptos gave them instructions to maintain their impunity: 14 corrupt political parties, including the winner, Sandra Torres; they filed an appeal for amparo (number 3731-2023) so that charges are not adjudicated as a result of the recent elections, alleging errors, erasures and others in the minutes. This action, orchestrated by the Executive and its advisors, is a response to the victory of the Seed Political Movement and the perception of the #PactodeCorruptos that is losing control of the country they believe they own.
It took corrupt Guatemalan politicians ten years to achieve a counterrevolution, from 1944 to 1954; and with it not only take away the dreams of this beautiful country, but also sow fear, hunger and despair. The counter-revolution cornered honest citizens, who had to flee to the mountains or flee the country, and with it a sad chapter of hatred between Guatemalans opens, fostered by the extreme right, corrupt businessmen, and the dark power of the army.
The corrupt Guatemalan politicians took eight days to start their ignorance of the elections, because they feel they are losing power. If the candidate who won, Sandra Torres from UNE, is afraid of going to the second round and she supports this absurd request not to recognize the elections, it is because she herself knows that she is going to lose in the second round.
The only option left to honest Guatemalans is to organize ourselves to be able to defend what we said at the polls and that it is not the Constitutional Court, CC, that decides who remains or who does not remain as president. The CC was chosen by another fraudulent process. So among fraudulents they want to ignore the results of the elections of June 25.
As Guatemalans we must protest against this arbitrariness to ask that the courts stop giving legal touches to a clear coup. There is nothing left but to fight for what is ours. If we do not want to live again the nightmare of corruption, drug trafficking, improvisation and incapacity, we must protest and recover the power of honest voting.
Now or never, is the phrase that should guide our protest, to rescue the will of the people at the polls and not in the fraudulent “Justice” Courts.
