Confronted with this publication, protesters and civil society organizations, including influential figures such as Los Hermanos Pachecos –who have more than one and a half million subscribers– responded to President Giammattei that they will support the demonstrations until they achieve the resignation of the prosecutors, and also assured that there are infiltrators who seek to destabilize and disperse the demonstrations.

“The Pachecos brothers sent you to say something. From today we no longer have a president, we no longer have one, because there are many of us. La Porras does not want to go out, she is not afraid, because there are few of us. The people are united, we are few,” the influencers said in a video showing them at the temple, leading a demonstration in Totonicapane.

General Directorate of Traffic Safety and Security (Provial) of the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing of Guatemala, indicates that 143 road blockades have been registered.

At the height of the demonstrations, Last week, the Prosecutor General assured that she would not resign and on Monday he called on Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei in a message to forcibly disperse the population.

Porras Argueta has not appeared publicly. although protesters went looking for her at one of her houses. Likewise, the magistrate is looking for himat the request of an individual, for a legal “personal discovery” request to determine where he or she is located and in what state.

Protests started on October 2 by the indigenous organization “48 Cantons”. from the department (province) of Totonicapan (west), and from that moment on he was joined by other people and associations.

President-elect Bernardo Arevalo is due to take office on January 14, but he has made it clear that a “coup d’état” by Porras Argueta is being prepared against him to prevent his inauguration.

On Tuesday, security forces tried to break a blockade on one of Guatemala’s main roads, called Periférico, but were forced to retreat due to the large number of protesters there. who reproached them with motorcycles.

Also on Tuesday, but in Washington, the Organization of American States (OAS) said that allegations of allegedElection irregularities in Guatemala are unfounded.

On Sept. 30, Porras and prosecutors seized voting records from elections last August and June. in an action widely criticized locally and internationally because Guatemalan law does not provide for such a possibility.

Arevalo, for his part, stressed on Tuesday evening that “the way out of this crisis will begin” when Giammattei “Stop remaining silent in the face of an obvious attack on the people’s will.” This requires the resignation of the prosecutor general.

Finally, indigenous authorities and Civic Action benefited from temporary protection from the Constitutional Court. protect the rights of demonstration, assembly, freedom of expression and legitimate resistance of people, In the context of public demonstrations, which calls on the accused authorities – the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of National Defence, the Attorney General and the head of the Ministry of State, the Director General of the National Civil Police and the Ombudsman for Human Rights – to act accordingly. certain recommendations in such situations.

According to EFE and Aristegui Noticias.