By Mario Rodríguez Acosta
According to the Royal Academy of Language, to give in means to give in, give up, desist, renounce, capitulate, condescend, submit, retract, agree. In a month and a few days, since January 14, this has happened with Bernardo Arévalo and his government against prosecutor Consuelo Porras.
Bernardo Arévalo, with his diplomatic prudence, looks weak and his lack of forcefulness lacks character and ingenuity, defrauding millions of citizens who support him. That jeopardizes his position, the continuity of his government, and the country’s weak and co-opted democracy. That is irresponsible behavior that leads you to the abyss.
On the contrary, the prosecutor on the Engel list, Consuelo Porras, continues with her crusade waiting for a single resolution and/or conviction of any of the cases she has open against the elections, Semilla, the electoral court or the own president and vice president to find the perfect excuse to annul everything, convene a Peru-style transitional government and return Giammattei’s clique to executive power.
Apparently the prosecutor took the measure from Semilla’s government. Together with the Constitutional Court, they left them without the presidency of Congress and without commissions to preside over. Then, the election of governors ran into the wall of corruption and cooptation that persists throughout the public administration.
The unofficial defense of the justice system in favor of the corrupt cannot be ignored. Even more so when an accelerated judicial persecution continues against the opposition, mainly against journalists, students and activists against the coup, as well as members of the ruling party and the president himself.
The corrupt pact is busily seeking to deliver the final blow to the judicial siege that the prosecutor has built over these months. It is that criminal alliance who is really ruling. The missing puzzle is the invitation that the prosecutor made to the board of directors of Congress and the heads of blocks and commissions to have a coordination meeting. That is probably the beginning of the end of this government.
The statements of the private secretary of the presidency were a bucket of cold water for the citizens. He accepted the ruler’s inability to fire Consuelo Porras, giving up on his employment. Rather, he calls to live with her, because, in her words, this government is not for “fights.”
The strange and fascinating thing about this reality is observing the offensive of the corrupt pact in all fields and areas of public administration. The cases “mounted” against defenders of democracy are resolved in leaps and bounds and all these resolutions are in accordance with the dictates of the prosecutor, and any judge who does not interpret it that way is immediately accused.
He does not protest the abuse that the Constitutional Court makes of the interpretation of the Constitution, but making an unnecessary and to a certain extent ridiculous fuss when defending the former president of Congress who continues to launch a coup against the government is reckless.
Not a single one of the corrupt officials of the governments of Jimmy Morales and Alejandro Giammattei are being investigated, despite the existence of evidence that demonstrates the level of corruption reached, as well as the support of the attorney general at the head of the restoration process. In other words, giving up won’t help them either. Rather, it will facilitate the institutional coup that sooner or later will occur before the end of the prosecutor’s remaining period. The cancer that she supposedly suffers from does not wait for anyone.
Apparently Arévalo y Semilla was content with taking power and not exercising the will of the people who voted for change. The problem is that it won’t last long. My prediction is that once the Democratic defeat in the United States is confirmed and Donald Trump’s return to power is confirmed, the coup will be carried out easily, if not the president himself facilitates it sooner.
