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NEW BEDFORD — Whaling in the city will be, for a brief moment, in the midst of a foreign policy race when Thelma Cabrera arrives in town Oct. 26.
Cabrera, an indigenous man of Mayan Mam descent, will speak at the Community Workers Center on Acushnet Avenue at 6:00 p. m.
“We’re bringing it here to get votes or raise funds,” Adrian Ventura, director of the CTC, said in Spanish. “We need it to motivate our young people. “
Cabrera is expected to run extensively in the 2023 national general election; Your moment in the office.
In 2019 she ranked fourth with around 10% of the Guatemalan electorate voting for her, the record ever recorded for an indigenous candidate.
The first indigenous candidate to run for the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in the workplace, Rigoberta Menchú, who won three percent of the vote when she ran in 2007.
According to Ventura, the force has been in the hands of descendants of Europeans in Guatemala.
He added that Cabrera’s ability to exceed expectations is a sign of political renewal in the Central American country.
“It promotes human rights and has about indigenous rights and women’s rights,” she said.
Cabrera caused a sensation when he ranked fourth in Guatemala’s 2019 general election, the most productive result for an indigenous candidate in a country where 45% of the population identifies as indigenous; most commonly Maya.
“This is a genocide that began when Christopher Columbus landed on those shores,” he said.
He also said that given the context of Guatemala’s recent history, with gang violence, corruption and genocide, its presence on the political stage carries specific weight.
“This is an indigenous woman who carries the same suffering on her shoulders as I do,” he said.
Among those expected to announce their candidacy for president is Sury Rios, the daughter of Efrain Rios Montt, an army dictator whose anti-communist crusade in the 1980s led to the silent Holocaust, where thousands of ethnic Mayans were killed in an ethnic war. movement. Cleaning campaign.
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According to a report by the Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Guatemalans are the third largest organization of foreign-born citizens in the city with approximately 1511 people.
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Most of the number is a serious underestimate, as many are among the 10,000 undocumented people living in the city, according to the Center for Assistance for Immigrants.
The recent maximum estimate of the city’s Mayan population in a 2016 article published by the former Public Policy Center at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, indicated about 7,000 people.
Ventura said Cabrera will speak in Spanish and there will be an English translation. The occasion is free and open to the public. Pupusas will be served.
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This article was originally published in Standard-Times: Former Guatemalan Presidential Candidate to Speak at CTC