Guatemala vice president arrested after protest against prosecutor

Guatemala: Guatemala police on Wednesday detained a Deputy Minister, who led a protest against a top public prosecutor at the center of a power struggle with the President. Bernardo ArewaloWho condemned the arrest.
Arewalo alleged Attorney General Consuelo Porus – The United States and the European Union approved for corruption- demanded to be uprooted.
Prosecution spokesman Mois Ortiz said that Luis Pacheko, vice -president of energy and mines, was arrested at the request of the Attorney General’s office, including terrorism and hindrance in justice. Arewalo called “an act of criminalization” of peaceful demonstrations.

He said, “This is an attack on resistance conflict by Guatemelle people in 2023 to prevent these political-criminal networks hidden in the public prosecutor’s office stealing elections and failing the popular desire.”
Pacheko, an indigenous Mayan leader, presided over one of the organizations who called the protests, in which thousands of Guatemele came out in support of Arewalo and demanded Porus’s resignation. He was taken to court on Wednesday for an initial hearing, said he was “angry.”
Luis Almagro, general secretary of the American states’ organization, said Pacheko’s arrest was “political oppression”, which, according to a statement by “social media platform X, could not become a means of” limiting democratic progress of the country. ,
The High Commissioner of the United Nations also issued a statement for human rights in Guatemala stating that the government should guarantee that “no person is prosecuted to exercise the right to a peaceful assembly on the criminal.”
Arewello’s anti-corruption crusade helped to seal the election on August 2023, but also put them in the crosshare of the prosecutors. Former legalists, diplomats and sociologists have repeatedly condemned the “slow coup de’tat” and have tried to remove the porus unsuccessfully.