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The Open Letter of President Bernardo Arévalo to the Guatemalans: the Usual Rhetoric of the Left to Consolidate Power - Gateway Hispanic
Summary
Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo—self-defined sociologist as progressive and leader of the left-wing Semilla movement—published an open letter and video message to the nation celebrating the departure of Attorney General Consuelo Porras and the appointment of Gabriel Estuardo García Luna as the new head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP). Porras, a veteran prosecutor with eight years in office, had long been a stone in the shoe for the Arévalo administration. In his letter, Arévalo presented his departure as the end of the alleged “kidnapping” of the MP by “political-criminal networks,” accusing her of protecting corruption while pursuing the so-called “reformers.”
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Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo—self-defined sociologist as progressive and leader of the left-wing Semilla movement—published an open letter and video message to the nation celebrating the departure of Attorney General Consuelo Porras and the appointment of Gabriel Estuardo García Luna as the new head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP). Porras, a veteran prosecutor with eight years in office, had long been a stone in the shoe for the…