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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 24 February 2017
GUATEMALA: Morales confronts multiple protests
President Jimmy Morales and his Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) government this week faced protest action on various fronts from indigenous protesters. Demands ranged from the approval of constitutional changes which would recognise indigenous justice to the suspension of operations at a controversial hydroelectric project. A presidential press release published following a 21 February meeting between President Morales and indigenous leaders cited the latter as underlining “progress” made in the encounter. Yet few are optimistic that the FCN-Nación government will take the demands of the historically marginalised indigenous sector (which accounts for 44% of Guatemala’s population on official figures) any more seriously than its predecessors.
