Central America

Demand resignation of prosecutors and judges in Guatemala

Photo: @PrensaComunitar

September 20 |

Guatemalans mobilized this Tuesday in various parts of the country to demand the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras, prosecutors Rafael Curruchiche and Cinthia Monterroso, and Judge Fredy Orellan in the face of a coup d’état after the election results.

The members of the 48 Cantons of Totonicapán, who began a march from the Chamber of Industry building to the central headquarters of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, demand that these officials leave their posts.

“Out, coup plotters”, was one of the slogans of a group of neighbors in Chiquimulilla, Santa Rosa, as they demanded their resignation. For her part, Kaqchikel researcher Sandra Xinico said that “we are denouncing how the system is eating away at our lives”.

Similarly, the Indigenous Mayor’s Office of Sololá and the Xinca Parliament joined the mobilization. In fact, these organizations filed an injunction in the Constitutional Court, so that the head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office refrains from taking actions that jeopardize or threaten the election rights.

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In this sense, members of the Comité de Desarrollo Campesino (Codeca) protested in front of the headquarters of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Chimaltenango.

They also demand justice for the murder of activists and human rights defenders of this peasant organization, while denouncing that “Curruchiche is not a prosecutor, he is just another criminal”, said the movement.

“We demand all the media not to make invisible our call for a Popular and Plurinational Constituent Process. We are a plural movement that recognizes that the only way out for Guatemala is structural changes”, said Codeca.

Other territories where mobilizations took place were Alta Verapaz, Quiché, San Marcos, Escuintla, Sololá, among others.

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