Friday, May 15, 2009

Major protests expected around the country.

There is a major political crisis going on in Guatemala right now. The country´s first democratically elected left wing president in 50 years is being accused of murdering a prominent right wing attorney who threatened to expose goverment corruption. There is massive corruption throughout the government, whether it is left wing or right wing in this country. Here is the dead Attorney´s final accusations. Translation is written next to it.

A few days ago, I was speaking to a young man in a cafe who asked me what I thought of all this. Having been so involved in school, etc, I haven´t really been keeping up on current politics. He asked me what he should do. I told him that probably the best thing would be to get the news out to international sources. He said he wanted to organize a protest.

I saw him again today and he thanked me for supporting him. He has organized a protest against the government tomorrow. I don´t really know how I feel about it, as I´m really not well read on the situation. I understand there is massive government corruption, as well as disappearences still, but this is the first democratically elected left wing government in 50 years, and I am wondering about how complex the dynamics of this incident truly are. The president has ordered an international and independent investagation to the murder. There is a very big chance that he could be deposed over this. It will be interesting to see....

Here´s the lawyer, who was murdered, in a video where he accuses the president of killing him. There is a translation of his speech next to the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=243X1pI6-I8

Here´s an article about the situation.
http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_w20/colom-rosenberg-president.html#hdng1

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