GUATEMALA CITY.- Guatemalans on the ground, demand that the new national
government show its promised decision to continue fighting corruption.
Thousands of Guatemalans were demonstrating and
blocking roads as part of a national protest called against Attorney General
Consuelo Porras and President Alejandro Giammattei for the dismissal of an
official considered key in the fight against corruption.
Juan Francisco Sandoval, head of the Special Prosecutor
Against Impunity (FECI), an official recognized for his fight against
corruption and who had been praised inside and outside the country, was removed
from his post a few days ago, which sparked criticism and that the United States
government suspended cooperation with the Public Ministry.
At the singing of the national anthem, some 10,000 people
blocked from six in the morning one of the main roads in Cuatro Caminos, in
western Guatemala, which connects several departments.
Guatemala advances in the citizen's position of asserting
its right, thus to choose who administers the country, rather than the
officials themselves, according to the results that they bring to the benefit
or detriment of the nation.
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