2y ago

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?

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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.
  
  All the based parties that wouldn't have done this dumbass shit were barred from running. That's why we have this clown.
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.

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