{"id":1940,"date":"2015-11-10T23:52:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/?p=1940&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2015-11-12T01:36:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T01:36:21","slug":"this-is-just-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/politics\/this-is-just-the-beginning\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A new alliance called \u00abThis is just the beginning!\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year\u2019s massive social mobilizations in Guatemala won\u2019t just become history; they have a future, as the October 15th event \u201cThis is Just the Beginning\u201d showed in Guatemala City. The event was a gathering of young people from rural communities who have been monitoring the elections as part of the group Mirador Electoral, and young people from urban organizations and collectives that took part in organizing the recent demonstrations. The event was organized by DEMOS, the group that formed Mirador Electoral, and the UN Development Project in Guatemala (PNUD). Anabella Rivera, director of DEMOS, described the results:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In all my years of activism for human rights and the quest for democracy in Guatemala, I\u2019ve never heard such good sense and calm seriousness in an interpretation of the reality of the country. I knew they were all young, but there were neither calls for adversarial confrontation nor the haste that allows the future to escape us for impatience. It was lucid awareness of what needs to be strengthened in the path of civic participation: education, organization, knowledge, reliable information, analysis, reflection, and determination to follow through because this is just the beginning. I thought it wouldn\u2019t be like this, but it was. Hope and the spirit of struggle prevailed. They know that they have to defeat the demons of custom, of divisive beliefs, of egotism\u2026 but they\u2019re willing to keep working together. They committed to meeting at 3PM on January 15th to continue the process of building the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tony P\u00e9rez Guzm\u00e1n of the VOS collective from Quetzaltenango, Rivera, and Catalina Soberanis, Coordinator of PNUD\u2019s Strategic Analysis Unit, former Congresswoman, and the first female President of Congress, answered questions from EntreMundos about the event and next steps. This article contains a small part of their answers. Read the full responses at revista.entremundos.org.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Soberanis: We saw the need for bridges between young people from rural and urban backgrounds, from indigenous and ladino ethnicities, from leftist and rightist ideologies, so that young people could share their different perspectives with each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The activity included a \u201ccitizens\u2019 coffee,\u201d which consisted of a facilitated exchange between young people of their experiences. This is the first time in many years that young people are demonstrating while self-identifying as youth and that they\u2019re mobilizing massively in urban areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As the participants have stated, \u201cThis is just the beginning.\u201d And what we can expect is the creation of spaces for exchange, reflection, and education. What kinds of organization will arise? We don\u2019t know yet, but with the participation of young people, Guatemalan society will have to face the challenges created by an economic model that thus far has generated high rates of poverty and a profound chasm between extreme poverty and extreme wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Guzm\u00e1n: We need to maintain the new public awakening to show the political class that we\u00b4ll be tightening the vices, monitoring every cent invested in the country. Otherwise, we\u2019ll be nothing more than a fleeting hope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Guatemala isn\u2019t a poor country; it\u2019s been ransacked since it was a Spanish colony by its successive governments. Otto P\u00e9rez Molina and Roxana Baldetti El\u00edas aren\u2019t the major corruption problem in Guatemala. They were puppets put in place to operate a network that benefits the interests of unscrupulous businessmen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The VOS collective sees the movement developing in Xela in the medium term as a non-profit civic association whose aim is to monitor the city government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s massive social mobilizations in Guatemala won\u2019t just become history; they have a future, as the October 15th event \u201cThis is Just the Beginning\u201d showed in Guatemala City. 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