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Caribbean & Central America - April 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUATEMALA: Pérez Molina faces familiar demands
“More of the same”. This was one response by indigenous groups to talks held last month with the new right-wing government of President Otto Pérez Molina, following the first national show of unrest from the historically marginalised sector. The government’s failure to deliver concrete pledges in response to long-standing indigenous demands, together with Pérez Molina’s interest in boosting mining and hydrocarbons production (which runs counter to civil society’s calls for a moratoria on such activities in indigenous territories), suggests the unlikelihood that the situation for the indigenous sector, the second-largest proportionally after Bolivia in Latin America, is going to change under the new government.
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