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Hundreds of riot police are forced to retreat and retreat from one of Guatemala City's most popular neighborhoods. The residents of La Bethania, in zone 7, united to prevent the agents from evicting a blockade in one of the main arteries of the capital that they have maintained for 12 days. Mounted on hundreds of motorcycles, they surrounded the uniformed who were outnumbered and had to desist from the order of the president, Alejandro Giammattei, who intended to put an end by force to this mode of protest that prevents the passage of vehicles.

A demonstrator stood in front of a line of riot police and reminded them of the condition of the population to end the more than a hundred blockades that have been on roads throughout the country for more than a week: "We demand the resignation of the attorney general, Consuelo Porras, of the head of the Special Prosecutor's Office Against Impunity (FECI), Rafael Curruchiche, prosecutor Cinthia Monterroso and the judge of the Seventh Court, Fredy Orellana."

"We are defending democracy, but we no longer want more corrupt pact that is stealing everything from us here in Guatemala, nor do we want to go to a hospital where people die in emergencies because there is nothing, not even an education that is blocked," said the woman, who faced the police officers who recalled that "they are not obliged to follow the orders of the high command that the only thing it wants is to destabilize. to the population."

The so-called Indefinite National Strike was promoted by the indigenous authorities of different departments of the country headed by the 48 Cantons of Totonicapán and those from Sololá and Quiché, who for 12 days have maintained a constant demonstration in front of the Prosecutor's Office of Guatemala. Thousands of people surround the building and have already warned that they have no intention of retiring until the three prosecutors and the judge who are branded as "coup plotters" resign from their positions.

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