Latin American Summary June 25, 2024
Latin American TV Summary Program where we share the interview with Guatemalan fighter César Montes from prison. It has been carried out by the national channel 8 of Honduras. In September 2019, the president of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, declared a state of siege in 22 municipalities and began an international search for Commander César Montes, which was only successful in October 2020. César Montes had been denouncing and fighting against the genocide for decades. perpetrated in rural areas of Guatemala, first by the military government and, more recently, by drug traffickers. Arrested in Mexico, he was extradited to Guatemala and sentenced to prison by a court that “found him guilty” of the murder of three soldiers in a false positive, set up by the Guatemalan government and the CIA. The commander was born in Guatemala in 1942, he is a professor and in 1961 he began studying law at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala. A year later, he began training as a doctor in Havana, Cuba. His activism, for just causes, made him a Guerrilla Commander, having joined the November 13 Revolutionary Movement (MR-13) and helped form the guerrilla group Forças Armadas Rebeldes (FAR). Recently, Bernardo Arévalo, a progressive president, took over the government of Guatemala, after a chaotic takeover and coup attempts by the Guatemalan extreme right, replacing the conservative politician Alejandro Giammattei, whose government was involved in several scandals. of corruption. We hope that the new government of Guatemala will release César Montes, we will continue to demand his freedom.
