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Security & Strategic Review - June 2025
GUATEMALA: Porras targets key Arévalo support base
In late April Guatemala’s discredited attorney general María Consuelo Porras ordered the arrest of deputy energy & mining minister Luis Pacheco, a former leader of indigenous organisation 48 Cantones de Totonicapán (48 Cantones), and 48 Cantones’ former treasurer Héctor Chaclán on charges including terrorism. Widely slammed as spurious, the charges are considered a reprisal for the crucial role played by indigenous groups in the mass protests against Porras’ unsuccessful efforts to reverse the August 2023 presidential victory of anti-corruption outsider Bernardo Arévalo. As president, Arévalo continues to wrestle with his pledge to dismantle the ‘pacto de corruptos’ network of institutional corruption, with which Porras is aligned. However, institutions such as the United Nations (UN) highlight progress in his efforts to establish dialogue with the long-marginalised indigenous sector which, at some 44% of the population, is the biggest in Central America.
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