Fernando Cajas
What we observed at the press conference of the Public Ministry of Guatemala on December 8th seems like a humorous comedy, where everything is done wrong to such an extent that it causes laughter, sadness and anger. They make you laugh because in principle they have enormous problems structuring a phrase, let alone a sentence. I think they can’t distinguish the subject from the predicate, much less the verb. With this chronic illiteracy that they suffer as a result of having copied, falsified and plagiarized all their exams, not to mention their law theses, what can be expected from these jurists. Every phrase is laughable, from his “master of ceremony” to his forceful, objective, technical findings ridiculously placed on top of each other without any logic. Although the MP prosecutors are laughable, I take their accusations seriously, not because they are true, but because they are the elements they have to carry out the coup d’état. Thus, although jocular, we must take seriously the implications of this barbarity.
It’s sad because the Public Ministry was disoriented, totally disoriented, by the perverse mind of Consuelo Porras who was divinely ordered to intervene in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. Since she had no elements or intelligence and her alternate subs, servants, are as clumsy as her, it only occurred to them to construct a false and perverse narrative, which in the end they made of a dozen cases, all false and which were crowded together like eggs. chicken in a paper bag. They started investigating people who have immunity without permission, that didn’t matter to them. They began to invent, together with their netcenter, which we later learned was managed from the same institution, the MP, where they said what, when and how they were going to carry out their coup acts. Although they are sad, we really have to take seriously the pseudo argument that they will take to the supreme electoral court, TSE because there is no way to request the annulment of the elections if they do not go through the TSE.
It makes you angry because they have violated the Constitution again and again. They have already been told, it has already been explained to them, by the constituents themselves, that they do not have jurisprudence on electoral matters. What they have done is a crude intervention and they have dealt a political blow to the Electoral Court. They are trying to dismantle the electoral court so that other magistrates, chosen by them by hand, declare the elections null, for any reason, for any nonsense, it could be because Semilla accepted forty-four thousand dollars, because Samuel Pérez said something ugly on Twitter , where he said what it is, they have declared war on us. Because Karin Herrera led the boys from the national university in the takeover, false, false, false, everything is false. But, even in anger, we must have a cool head because these cowards, who do not show their faces, who only have their puppets give press conferences worthy of the most vulgar of theaters, can achieve their objective if as citizens, as People, we are careless.
In the end, after months of “investigation” they were left with a few incoherent cases, cases that I am not going to repeat here because they have been deeply analyzed in this newspaper, in different media, in articles and social networks in such a way that it is already clear. He saw that the public ministry has nothing, nothing at all and that the best they can have is that ridiculous press conference that made the national and international community laugh.
It makes you laugh, sad and angry how they have constructed a false narrative, a series of incoherent cases and it is worrying that, even so, even with so much inconsistency they managed to get the electoral court to dare to annul the elections. I explain why. If they were able to invent a case about the transmission system, TREP, a non-binding system, that is, a system that could or could not exist because the results would be, were and always will be the same. That is non-binding, they do not bind. What rules in the elections are the electoral boards, which they accuse of another string of lies. Without an audit of the comptroller’s office, without arguments, without anything at all, they managed to remove the immunity of the judges of the electoral court and already managed to dismantle that important court. The reason: the deputies are co-opted to the teeth. The legislature is co-opted. The executive is co-opted. The judiciary is re-coopted. The electoral court is
tablecloth Therefore, although the false narrative of laughter, sorrow and anger should encourage us to organize, to use the Constitution correctly to defend the fragile democracy that escapes us, how?
- We must protest peacefully, non-violently, not engage in intentional provocation so that they then militarize everything and return to their barracks-style coups.
- International organizations must sanction and these sanctions only work if they are economic.
- Lawyers, especially jurists, must present legal remedies, national and international, to return to democracy.
- Politicians must speak out, to once and for all know whose side they are on.
- The recently elected deputies, the mayors, the new authorities must say whether they support democracy or not.
We Guatemalans want to live in democracy. Guatemalans, do we really want a more just country? I know yes. Come on, let’s defend our weak democracy and strengthen it to make a real, real country. Either it is now or it will never be Guatemala.
