Guatemala: after political loss, social organizations rethink strategy

  • 10 years ago
The Guatemalan Campesino Unity Committee (Comite de Unidad Campesina, CUC) has led the demonstrations in recent days in favor of the congressional approval of the Integral Rural Development Law. They believe that the fact that Congress will not even schedule discussion on the law is evidence that lawmakers represent an extractive, neoliberal, capitalist model, which blocks any possibility of new laws that would benefit the people. teleSUR.