One expert said the decision to disqualify Indigenous human rights defender Thelma Cabrera is an “electoral coup.”
, Cabrera “gave the Guatemalan political establishment a shock” by winning 10% of the vote in the presidential election.
“It was the most successful presidential run by an indigenous person in Guatemala’s modern history — the only other was by Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú in 2007, who won 3% of the vote,” Burns noted. “Cabrera’s biography is striking. She grew up in a Maya Mam family of poor laborers on a coffee plantation on Guatemala’s Pacific coast and was married at 15.
Cabrera’s supporters have vowed to “paralyze the country” with large-scale demonstrations if the electoral body’s decision isn’t reversed. “If they do not do it, we are going to take over the international airport, the three ports of the country, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, and all state institutions,” said one MLP supporter. “We are Indigenous, we are Maya, and we can be out here for a month!”
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