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Riot police form a cordon as flames shoot out from the Congress building after protesters set a part of the building on fire, in Guatemala City
HUNDREDS of protesters broke into Guatemala’s congress and set fire to part of the building on Saturday amid growing anger at President Alejandro Giammattei’s budget cuts to education and healthcare.
Around 10,000 people were protesting in front of the National Palace, Guatemala City, against corruption and the budget, which was negotiated and passed by legislators in secret while the Central American country was dealing with the fallout of back-to-back hurricanes and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Footage on social media showed flames lapping against a window of the legislative building on Saturday. Police fired tear gas at protesters and about a dozen people were reported injured.
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
