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Caribbean & Central America - June 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUATEMALA: Civil society back on the alert
President Otto Pérez Molina’s unexpected call for a debate on drugs legalisation earlier in the year [RC-12-02] might well have raised expectations that his government might pursue a more nuanced approach to security than his mano dura (repressive) electoral platform would otherwise suggest. Yet these expectations are fast unravelling. On 1 May, less than five months into his four-year mandate, he decreed a 30-day state of siege (which suspends constitutional guarantees) in the indigenous municipality of Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango, in response to local riots. The readiness with which he invoked the measure (which under popular pressure he was subsequently forced to suspend), along with suspicion regarding his motives, has raised alarm bells among civil society and human rights groups.
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