Biden’s arrival in the White House is a welcome break for those who fight for justice in Central America.
After Trump’s infinite will to break things, having a grown-up leading the self-appointed global cop is no bad thing. Of course, the thug remains unpunished. Worse still, his Republican enablers show no intention of letting up in the undemocratic folly. They have learnt nothing from the attack on the Capitol.
As with anything that happens in the North, the last four years’ catastrophe will surely affect us. But for now it is Washington’s task to deal with it, and here we have plenty of our own problems. Despite this, just eight days into its mandate the Biden administration decided to flex its muscle and call out the Pact of the Corrupt in the Guatemalan legislature as it insisted in appointing the most inadequate person it could find as a magistrate of the Constitutional Court. And it seems to be working.
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