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Guatemalans took to the streets for the fourth consecutive Saturday on December 12 to protest corruption and demand the president’s resignation. Days earlier, Indigenous, campesino, student, and religious movements in the Social and Popular Assembly (ASP) kicked off a National Strike (#ParoNacional) to call for a constitutional assembly (#AsambleaConstituyente). The ongoing protests come after discontent erupted on November 21 (#21N). Congress had passed a 2021 budget that slashed funds for food security and anti-corruption efforts and increased congressional perks amid a humanitarian catastrophe caused by two hurricanes and Covid-19. But the budget is just the tip of the iceberg. The same week, Congress, dominated by a right-wing alliance commonly known as the Pact of the Corrupt (#PactoDeCorruptos), packed the Constitutional Court. Meanwhile, outrage over the lack of transparency in the distribution of relief funds in the wake of Hurricanes Eta and Iota reinforced similar concer

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