The electoral process to define who will be our new authorities has begun. In the race to become President of the Republic, contrary to what we had predicted several months ago (which were and remain ripe for a third party that ultimately did not emerge or has emerged) take shape with only two candidates rule option, that of Otto Pérez Molina of the Patriot Party, and Sandra Torres Casanova, National Unity Party of Hope.
The other, however respectable they may be people who lead them and their respective pairs, according to our vision of things today are lost.
However, amidst all the paraphernalia that occurs as the Guatemalan electoral process, leaning political parties, with an excess of candidates, and especially full of illegal or at least lack of respect for the law, we see is, above all, a lack of respect and consideration for the less fortunate of our fellow citizens who, by virtue of living in the balance that produces a lack of economic resources and, therefore, with great gaps in health housing, education (security now affects everyone, rich and poor), but for the fact that the vast majority, have become the object of Machiavellian design campaign strategy. Use
poverty of others to be name is lewd, immoral, unethical, and that is precisely what the campaign of the former First Lady, other than illegal and violative of the Constitution, has done for our brothers and sisters less fortunate within the country.
thousands convene a meeting with the "hook" that will deliver pictures, nixtamal mills, sewing machines, knives or any object type "mirror" to attract people's attention and make them go up disappointed back to their homes, has no name.
Using state resources to be sacred to mount a patronage program, nor has it. And to read us well have to write it like it is: we are definitely against a program of the nature of which have been called the "social cohesion", but any delivery of public funding should be transparent, well-audited and, in particular , completely away from any temptation to make policy. Is that poverty should not be played, and the poverty of the people who have been exploiting!
On the other side of the spectrum, well positioned retired General Pérez Molina, a campaign is still warm, hopeful, perhaps, in the antibodies that the former First Lady generated and continue to generate in churches and the generally more aware of the urban population.
is a mistake, we believe that both candidates now lead the preferences, I bet the antivoto or lack of enthusiasm that other colleagues are able to generate candidate or not in this fight.
From our unique position of viewers still see the opportunity for a third party, with a little ingenuity, know from the crowd and change things, injecting a little excitement to a skeptical population, who rightly do not want to know little or nothing of politicians. Exit
to campaign before the law, whether administrative as has challenged permits, is itself same contempt order and a challenge to the ignorance of the less fortunate majority.
men and women are needed, making policy with a fundamental respect for the law, institutions and citizens, but especially someone who turn to see the poor as they are ordinary citizens who need authority on your side, not to use them as a springboard, just thinking about them when it comes to generating votes.
Hopefully some of those close to the candidates, everyone in general, I do get these lines. The option for the poor is not just rhetoric or the Episcopal Conference of a church influenced by theology of Liberation, is a reality that those who wish to run this country should understand.
Citizens living in urban centers deserve our respect and now we are under fire due to years of weak government, also supported, but who has traveled to villages, hamlets and mountain trails, knows and understands that the farmer has many more gaps than in cities, are good people, simple and beautiful that it deserves more respect and less manipulation.
From the standpoint that we have explained, we who have devoted many years to politics and, especially, development issues, from this rostrum declare our virtual option for the poor.
