What's happening in Guatemala?
What's happening in Guatemala?
I've read two articles now, I'm still pretty confused. Concerning because I was going to attend a school for a bit there. I see there's a potential coup and some right wing crazies getting riled up. And that the us is against it... But that's about it.
Can someone help me out here?
Did a little research, here's where I'm at:
-Electoral Year
-Everyone's expecting another corrupt pro statu quo government.
-Corrupt government takes most parties with an anti-corruption or anti statu quo narrative out of the race
-smalll Social Democratic party that used to have only 5 congress people ends up in second place for the presidency and becoming the 3rd largest force in congress
-they do that under an anti corruption campaign
-Corrupt government in shock
-Corrupt government tries to take party out of the election so they can't participate in the runoff for the presidency
-They can't
-small Soc-Dem party clutches it out
-Presidency plus 24 seats in congress
-Devastating for the corrupt government
-Corrupt government go REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
-They try to invalidate the elections
-Mass protests and road blocks for 14 days
-Can't invalidate elections
-Pressident elect has talks with private sector and indigenous coallition to stop roadblocks and protests
-Stopped
-They take members of the soc-dem party into costudy
-they try AGAIN to invalidate elections
-international community in panic
-Is this a coup!?
that's it this far
-Pressident elect has talks with private sector and indigenous coallition to stop roadblocks and protests
-Stopped
-They take members of the soc-dem party into costudy
Fucking liberals are the most gullible motherfuckers.
you know how coups happen when key figures are out of the country? @Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net just left for Taiwan
It's really true. You can go to take a piss and when you come out the entire country is on fire.
You're pretty much spot-on. This is Guatemalan "democracy" at its finest. The right-wing has been complicit in genocide since forever and absolutely hate getting prosecuted for it so they're doing everything they can to stop him from gaining power out of fear he'll do just that. The "International Community" is a god damn joke for hand-wrining about this when they brought it on in the first place.
Is it a coup? I guess even though his time to take the title of President hasn't come yet. He's still a President-elect. It will be a coup when his time comes and they prevent him from taking power at all. They're doing everything to lay the groundwork for it now.