The former presidential candidate and former first lady Sandra Torres, who has lost three presidential elections in Guatemala, broke his seven-month silence this Thursday by denounce a plan to assassinate her due to internal conflicts in her party.
“A couple of days ago they anonymously sent me an audio with real and forceful threats towards me,” Torres said in a video broadcast on social networks. These are his first public statements since he lost in the last second round against the current president, Bernardo Arévaloin August 2023.
Torres blamed two deputies from her party, the National Unity of Hope (UNE), for wanting to eliminate her to take control of the group and released the audio of an alleged conversation between two hitmen hired to kill her.
Sandra Torres during the 2023 elections.
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Deputies Adim Maldonado and José Inés Castillo have “expressed their intention to eliminate me from the path and stay with the party,” said Torres, whose force was nominally social democratic, but under their leadership assumed conservative positions and allied itself with right-wing parties.
Both mentioned parliamentarians distanced themselves from Torres and expressed their support for the social democratic party Semilla, of Arévalo, who assumed power on January 14.
“I trust the Public Ministry, I have filed the corresponding complaint, as it should be, and I am sure that the investigation will go to the end,” Torres said in her video.
At a press conference, Maldonado described Torres' accusations as false, after indicating that these actions “simply sink the political class further and that is why people are fed up with this type of show and unfounded accusations.”
The social democrat and former first lady of Guatemala, Sandra Torres.
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Arévalo, on the other hand, has questioned the work of the Public Ministry, which under the direction of the questioned Attorney General Consuelo Porras undertook a judicial crusade against him and his party in 2023, which called into question the presidential transition.
The current president won the second round widely thanks to the fact that thousands of Guatemalans saw him as hope against corruptionone of the country's evils.
Torres, for his part, received the silent support of the political and business elite accused of corruption, and never acknowledged his defeat at the polls.
The ex-wife of the late president Alvaro Colom (2008-2012) was also defeated in runoff elections by right-wingers Jimmy Morales and Alejandro Giammattei, in 2015 and 2019, respectively.
AFP
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