The representative of the Comitancillo municipality, southwestern department of San Marcos, pointed out the spending after the change of leadership, of “people’s money on something that has no social benefit but rather an individual one.”
On behalf of the original authorities, gathered in front of the Public Ministry (MP) in this capital, he added that it is a waste and considered it unfair that they have support in the context of all the corruption that they generate in the country.
The one from the Mayan-Mam community asserted that the people must be very critical and be on alert to not accept this type of expenses that the Government is committing.
“It is extremely worrying. We invite the population to continue in this fight, in this resistance, because corruption increasingly wants to leave us totally naked,” he remarked.
This Thursday, the ancestral organizations of Guatemala complete 88 consecutive days of peaceful protests in front of the MP headquarters demanding the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras.
Summoned by their ancestral authorities, they also demand the resignation of prosecutors Rafael Curruchiche, Cinthia Monterroso and the seventh criminal judge Freddy Orellana, whom they accuse of attacking the results of the last elections.
López’s statements came with agreement 320-2023, disclosed this morning, through which the president of the country, Alejandro Giammattei, authorized that the former officials have security from the National Civil Police (PNC).
The text, also signed by the Minister of the Interior Byron René Bor and María Consuelo Ramírez, general secretary of the Executive, specified that measures will be applied for a time similar to the time it took for them to take office.
The repealed agreement 71-2023 of April 13 of this year, “as it did not contemplate the protection of former officials who held the positions of Ministers of State and Secretaries of the Presidency,” they stressed.
The authors detailed that if the period that the regulation enables to provide them protection has already ended, the personnel, equipment and vehicles assigned to them will be removed by order of the general director of the PNC.
The deputy of the Semilla Movement party, Samuel Pérez, described it as an abuse to use resources to provide security to officials for no reason.
Legal experts used social networks to point out that it is necessary to annul the agreement, while several users stated that this could be the first action of the nation’s elected president, Bernardo Arévalo.
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