Guatemala Without CACIF? The Sure Path to Dividing and Destroying the Republic
In recent months, we have heard a dangerous idea repeated in Congress and in certain political circles: building a Guatemala without CACIF. The proposal is not minor. It implies eliminating the representation of the organized productive sector from State boards and, with it, breaking one of the essential balances of any functional republic. A country […]
When Heroes Die: The Urgency of Recovering Guatemala’s Lost Virtue
In After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre explains that societies are not sustained by institutions, laws, or technical programs, but by shared moral narratives. A people remains united only when it can say who it is, whom it admires, what it considers honorable, and why sacrifice is worthwhile. In heroic societies —those he analyzes in his famous […]
Neither Caudillo nor Party: Republic
Alisa Zinovievna Rosenbaum was twelve years old when the Bolshevik Revolution arrived in Petrograd. She watched as the State confiscated her family home and her father’s business, a pharmacist who had built his life through his own work. There was no compensation, no due process, no possibility of appeal. The Soviet Constitution of 1918 had […]
One Hundred Reasons to Rebuild the Republic
It was July 1779, and Matías de Gálvez had been in Guatemala for only thirteen months. In that time, he had accomplished what no previous governor had achieved in six years: laying the first stone of the Cathedral, building the Royal Palace, installing public lighting, putting the Mint into operation, and transforming a maze of […]