In Guatemala, strikes, protests, and blockades have been taking place for 17 days on the main roads to demand the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras Argueta, who President-elect Bernardo Arévalo de León believes is leading an attempted coup to prevent her assumption of the presidency, scheduled for January.
Over the course of the days, groups of university students, professionals, social organizations, merchants, and neighborhood committees became active throughout the country to defend democracy and demand respect for the popular will.
By Friday evening, the picketers had multiplied, and the country was paralyzed. Porras rules out submitting her resignation, and the Public Ministry assures that it “continues working without
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