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The tenacity of the MP, CC and SCJ in using and abusing the legal system and administration of justice to try and overthrow the elections, and indeed the rule of law itself, would be spectacular were it not so dangerous and threatening.
Waiting in the wings are the historically repressive military and police forces. It would be naïve to rule out the possibility that sectors of the Covenant of the Corrupt elites organize and pay for death squads to carry out targeted violence or killings.
U.S. and Canadian-fomented corrupt system
Never forget that the US and Canadian governments, and countless north american companies and banks have happily done business with and maintained full political relations for decads with these very same corrupted officials and institutions.
Recently, the Canadian government included Guatemala as a “democratic allie” member of the Lima Group, spearheaded by Canada in support of U.S.-led efforts to demonize, isolate and weaken the government of Venezuela.
In TESTIMONIO-Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala, co-edited by Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell, we detail how corruption and impunity (let alone violence, evictions and widespread harms) characterize just about every aspect of the Canadian-led, global mining industry operating in Guatemala, and that this was known, or should have been known by the Canadian government, investors and shareholders.
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