Called by the University Front for the Rescue of the USAC, the protesters toured several main streets of this capital to show their fight against the election of Walter Mazariegos as rector of the country’s only public higher education center.
Slogans such as “No to fraud, Usac is for the people”, “I have no rector” and “Respect the autonomy of the university” reminded citizens of the reasons for the month-long resistance of various academic entities to the wrong election of March 14. May.
That march, according to the organizers, was different from the one on May 21, when the sancarlistas came out to show their faces (they weren’t wearing hoods) and once again raised their voices to express their outrage at the inauguration of Mazariegos on the next 1st of the july
Those convened toured Roosevelt Road, the Clover, Aguilar Batres Road and culminated in the Central Campus Periférico entrance, which had been occupied since May 19.
Currently, eight USAC facilities are under the control of students in different departments, and the so-called General Coordinator of Tomas was recently formed.
Several faculties have also paralyzed their activities and calls for a full suspension, they reiterated.
The rector questioned received the majority of the votes, but without the participation of opposition forms validated by the various electoral bodies, whose representatives were violently prevented from entering the event, although the irregularities of the long process began almost from the beginning, argues the front … for saving the San Carlos.
For its members, Mazariegos does not meet the legal requirements of the position, nor does it have the ethics and honor to represent the Tercentenary University, hence the request to the Superior University Council to re-vote.
The day before, 11 winners of the “Miguel Ángel Asturias” National Literary Prize shared on the social network Facebook a statement in support of the Sancarlistas’ struggle and asking for the cancellation of the elections.
Furthermore, they mention that the electoral process was riddled with anomalies and marred to the extent that an institutional crisis emerged, within the other general crises of Guatemalan institutions, which are “absorbed by dark interests linked to mafia and drug trafficking. “
“The word FRAUD pops up in the student protests and in sections of civil society. The maneuvers that obscure the internal democracy of San Carlos, which historically to this day has been a space of resistance to injustice, are rejected,” they stressed.
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