Guatemalan indigenous people reaffirm their right to peaceful rally

Guatemala City, Oct 18 (Prensa Latina) The President of the Boards of Directors of 48 Cantons of the Totonicapan Department Luis Pacheco reaffirmed on Wednesday the right to peaceful rally in Guatemala, following the order of the Constitutional Court (CC).

October 18, 2023
17:20

There are resolutions that many times may alter public order, the indigenous leader stated in a press conference.

This morning, the CC urged the Ministry of the Interior and the National Civil Police for taking actions to restore public order and the full entrance to the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) headquarters within a period of no more than six hours.

Ahead of this situation, Pacheco announced that with the intervention of the Human Rights Ombudsman Alejandro Cordova, we will hold talks “to establish what has been the determining factor for the repression against rallies.”

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