00:00In this context, widespread protests and highway blockades erupted across Guatemala on Wednesday
00:06as transit operators and indigenous leaders rejected the government's response to rusting
00:10fuel prices.
00:11Despite the Guatemalan Congress passing emergency legislation to cut price thresholds, demonstrators
00:16mobilized extra-urban bus caravans toward the capital demanding deeper tax cuts on fuel.
00:23Producers blocked transit corridors in Tepeques and Zacapa while bus caravans paralyzed major
00:31avenues and public transport networks in Guatemala City.
00:34While the Constitutional Court granted an injunction to preserve freedom of movement, transport
00:39unions warned that the newly passed fuel price caps remain unsustainable and threaten to drive
00:44passenger fires upward.
