President Arevalo claims Guatemala has had "corrupt governments" instead of conservative ones | Video

Guatemala City, Jan 26 (EFE).- "We have not had conservative governments here, we have had corrupt governments," said President Bernardo Arévalo, the first progressive president of the Central American country since the restoration of democracy, in an interview with EFE, who believes that the most urgent thing now is to combat the legacy left by his predecessors.

Camera: Edwin Bercian.

STATEMENTS BY BERNARDO AREVALO DE LEÓN, PRESIDENT OF GUATEMALA.

I believe that calling them conservatives is doing them a favor. We have not had conservative governments here, we have had corrupt governments that have disguised themselves as ideological without being ideological in any way. The purpose of their government was not to manage the public sector according to a certain school of thought, but simply to have the opportunity to get their hands on the public treasury. The best example we have is a government that has just ended and has left behind corruption scandals that are truly incredible. The fundamental difference is, in the first place, that we are a government that arrives from the principle that we have to fight against the normalization of corruption that existed during all the previous governments and fight for a principle of transparency in public management.

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Date: 26/01/2024 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Politics
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 105 seconds
Reference: 7001330880
Relevance: Normal