for more we go to guatemala city where we're joined by lucrecia hernandez mack, guatemalan physician a member of the guatemalan congress with the political party movimiento semilla. that is the seed movement. in 2016, she became the first woman to lead the ministry of health in guatemala. she is the daughter of the late guatemalan anthropologist myrna mack, who was assassinated by u.s.-backed security forces in 1990. we're joined by andrea, maya k'iche leader, journalist and human rights defender. welcome both to democracy now! can you talk about the significance of these events? >> these manifestations and demonstrations are sort of like the thirdhapter of our history in the fight against corruption that started in 2015. in 2015, we saw the international commission. we saw cases that reveal t president involved in corruption. we saw many demonstrations, a national strike that finally made the president and vice president resigned. we had a second chapter where the corrupt strike back. public institutions started to be taken over like the constitutional court, the electoral cords, et

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and the other part there was in guatemala city for human trafficking victims, and mostly girls under the age of 20 or as young as 13 or 14 who have, you know, and i was going to say lost everything, but many didn't have much to lose or don't have anything to lose, but finding the small community in the heart of guatemala city some adults who will care about them and hopefully get them on a better life path. this is enormously important work in a region that needs us, and you have a grave responsibility on the shoulders and i look forward to working with, you and i will submit this question to try to get a chart that all of the committee can see to demonstrate the tremendous generosity of the american people around the vaccines and hope that we can continue that. thank you. thank you, mr. chair. >> thank you. senator romney is recognized and i would like to ask senator shaheen to preside since she has voted until i get back. >> and thank you. don't let them close the vote until i get there, and i will be brief, and i will not ask a series of questions because of the time, but first of

director of legal studies at the liberty and development foundation, he joins as far scott, from guatemala city. thank you very much for joining us. can you tell us what the scale of these protests is so far? well, so far pro this are nationwide. you know, probably not them. what am i the city? what city they are, but the medium size, i will say bottom. the curious thing is that if you look all over the country nationwide in almost every town and they were city, you can see people protested and i haven't seen anything like that. probably since 2015 when the credit from our previous auto. but as molina was forced to refine, what are the main demands of the press is, is it just about the president or is it why does that mean that it's on age to the destination was the the sack of course, on the one the special prosecutor again the corruption, most of the people are demanding the resignation of the attorney general. and some of them are also demanding the president's recognition. but i will say that the, the main demand remains the, you know, there is ignition of the attorney general because she w

join me live now from guatemala city. can i start by asking if there's been much of a reaction there amongst the general public, tucson to vowels? removal from his post and the fact that he fled the country with an hours of it happening well. many what amounts are highly disappointed by these decision procedures on the why that was the most visible phase of the fight against corruption apply that was undermined. in the last 2 years, we used to have a united nation back commission by the haven't corruption. and 2nd to some the one was, as i mentioned before, the, the main contributor to the commission and to the fight against corruption. so the general public is pretty much disappointed and that to the government is he now the 5th official is to be in a space of a couple of years to be in this situation. he's obviously faring for his own safety . but in fact, he was the fact that he was fired from his job. i mean, how much of a blow is this to anti corruption efforts in the country? it is a huge backlash against corruption

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several protests took place in guatemala city and other regions denouncing the president's governmentlect, and corruption. progressive guatemalan congressmembers are also demanding giammattei step down. this comes as covid-19 cases continue to skyrocket in guatemala, with hospitals on the verge of collapsing and others have already collapsed. guatemala has one of the lowest covid-19 vaccination rates in all of latin america. a federal judge in michigan grilled lawyers for former president trump monday over their false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. u.s. district court judge linda parker, who called the claims fantastical and speculative, is considering whether to ban sidney powell, lin wood, and other trump allies from practicing law in michigan or whether to disbar them altogether. this comes as "the washington post" reports that the republican national committee's top lawyer warned last november against continuing to push false claims that the presidential election was stolen, calling them a joke that could mislead millions of people. and in illinois, some 2500 c

i mean, there are american cities more violent that guatemala, el safely dorr and honduras and every one of them said something like joe biden, jobs, and i can get in now, and that's a direct result of the biden administration's failures of opening our borders and letting illegal aliens of gaming our system of rewarding drug smugglers and traffickers. >> all of that new hampshire party event available at c-span.org with tom cotton there. headline here from cbs on the president's job performance so far. biden nets positive marks for handling pandemic but vaccine resistance, delta concerns remains according to a cbs news poll and final comments here on social media. cynthia says this in terms of grading the president. solid "a" and solid "b." he's dealing with the absolute mess left to him and joe biden i give "f." inflation is not temporary. we can't afford it right from. from michelle in pennsylvania. i grade biden "f" because he's too hypocritical doing everything strictly party lines and i'll give joe biden an "a" says liz in north carolina. newark, new jersey on our democrats line

protests are expected. monro buffalo is following the story 1st from mexico city, but it's up to speed with what's going on in guatemala. what we're seeing in guatemala is easily the largest social mobilization in recent memory. people took to the streets on thursday. they set up roadblocks. the calls from protesters are for the resignation of the of the countries president alejandro jemma the day. but really the unrest that we've been seeing the tensions that we've been seeing since last week and over the weekend stem from the ouster of one man. his name is one francisco centerville, he's the former top anti corruption official for guatemala sandeval has since fled the country. and it's believed that he was fired precisely because of his corruption investigations into top officials. in guatemala, including an investigation into the president of guatemala, alejandro geometry. sandeval, as we said, has fled the country thing that he fears for his life. and the response that we're seeing is precisely what we're seeing on the streets of guatemala. today, these protests calling for the president to resign, people saying wh

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