Amid rising protests, Guatemala’s bishops call on president to veto budget cruxnow.com

Guatemala’s bishops urged the country’s president to veto the budget, but also called for calm as some protesters set the country’s Congress on fire.

“This is not defendable from any point of view,” Guatemala City Archbishop Gonzalo de Villa Vásquez said Nov. 22, the day after protesters entered Congress and set fires. “It was only a few who ended up provoking these disturbances … (and) it’s generally people who do not love the country, do not love peace, do not love justice.”…

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