Guatemala’s attorney general is calling for the government to act against largely peaceful protesters, which have taken to the streets for weeks demanding her resignation for what they say are clear attempts to undermine their nation’s democracy.
Market vendors march toward downtown during a national strike in Guatemala City, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. People are protesting to support President-elect Bernardo Arvalo after Guatemala's highest court upheld a move by prosecutors to suspend his political party over alleged voter registration fraud.
Such moves against the incoming leader prompted Indigenous groups and rural-dwellers – long disenfranchised in Guatemalan society – to call for an indefinite strike, which began with 14 blockades. Now two weeks into protests, the blockades have since expanded to block more than 80 roads throughout the country.
“I want to express my complete disagreement and distaste” of the protests, she said, adding that they “clearly violate the rights of all Guatemalans.”
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