GUATEMALA IS NOT A MONARCHY

In European countries, monarchies exist because the people want them that way. I notice that they like their monarchies and support them; it's like an ancestral reflection of their identity.

Monarchs are given salaries and their expenses paid. As they are established nations with strong economies, they logically have the money to pay them this amount, in exchange for activities that benefit their nations, as in England and Spain. They carry out acts of state and public relations that benefit their countries. I have noticed that Queen Letizia is looking to help poor women in some countries suffering from extreme poverty.

History shows us that many monarchies have fallen, for example the French one, where while the monarchs lived very well, the people suffered from famine. The Russian monarchy, which unfortunately suffered persecution, and well, there are so many historical films about those monarchies that have fallen.

I compare President Bernardo Arévalo, his wife, and children to the French monarchy. A few weeks ago, the first lady held a baby shower for her daughter at the presidential residence. The Secretariat of Administrative and Security Affairs of the Presidency of the Republic reported that they spent Q170,000.00 for the family event.

I believe that catering for a baby shower is an excessive expense that has offended the population, given that Guatemala cannot be compared to European monarchies, which can incur expenses for their monarchs' events.

The president has a salary, and the first lady should not touch public funds for personal expenses. They also point out that the children there are still eating and living at the presidential residence to avoid personal expenses.

President Arévalo remained in power because the population dreamed of "the democratic spring in Guatemala" with former President Jacobo Árbenz, or Juan José Arevalo, father of the current President Bernardo Arévalo.

The sad thing is that Bernardo Arévalo doesn't even dream of resembling his father. He's been gorging himself on cakes that are overcharged and tripled in price and billed to who knows which family and friends, in order to benefit from exorbitant bills. It's worth seeing how much the baby shower cakes were overpriced and who benefited.

This situation has disillusioned Guatemalans, seeing how the budgets in several ministries are not being implemented, and all the government's work is slow or simply not being carried out. Seeing how, overnight, he wanted to force lower-class people to buy car insurance, without even considering that the people often don't have money to eat or feed their families. 

I've been paying car insurance for years on my 2001 car. I do it in case I get a flat tire, they'll come and change it, ha ha ha, or if the battery dies. Thank God I have a new battery now, but when I can't afford insurance, my kids pay for it. Newer model cars all pay for insurance, but for those of us who don't have newer models, paying for car insurance is a luxury. I'm not against car insurance, but it should be done intelligently and offer low-cost insurance depending on the car model, rather than being forced overnight.

And now, with this baby shower situation, it's clear that the tenants of the presidential palace are only thinking about filling their stomachs and pockets with our tax dollars. This presidential outlook contrasts with the Guatemalan reality, as UNICEF indicates: Guatemala is currently the sixth country in the world with the worst rates of child malnutrition.

Artículo de Unicef, desnutrición infantil en Guatemala

Guatemalan women, mostly indigenous, are malnourished and logically have malnourished children. It's inhumane for the president of Guatemala to spend money on a baby shower for his grandson while Guatemalan children, who are his responsibility, are dying of hunger. He should feel a little ashamed. The first lady is supposed to work and ensure the development of Guatemalan children, yet she doesn't even consider her conscience, and they have no heart or love for the Guatemalan people. The presidential couple believes they are a monarchy, while here we are a Republic, with severe childhood malnutrition.

This is why God wants to defeat secularism in the State, because those who have Jesus in their hearts would work for the poor and fight to overcome childhood malnutrition; they would not tolerate the people suffering from hunger. Let us remember Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a great Christian who worked for the poor. Not all Christians are like her, but true Christians suffer when they see the hunger of others.

THERE IS NOTHING TO CELEBRATE ON WOMEN'S DAY

 In Guatemala, years ago I was preparing to wish "Happy Women's Day" and one day my son told me, "I don't know if I should wish you Happy Women's Day, because many women tell me that there is nothing to celebrate" and then I realized that we have nothing to celebrate because of the conditions of Guatemalan women, especially indigenous women.

So gradually we stopped celebrating and almost no women celebrate it, only some cultural activities or the popular demonstration that they do in all countries are held.

Worldwide, women suffer violence, contempt for their talents, envy, harassment because of their condition as women, injustices. In Spain, Mexico, Honduras, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, these are countries on the list of International Organizations that support women because they are murdered daily.

Now I understand why God named me Abraham, because he wants to show that a woman can bear that name and be worthy of hearing his voice. And why did Jesus make me his disciple? Because they only register male disciples.

Those who slander, defame and harass me, want to see me as a prostitute or a servant, do not accept my talents as a writer, do not accept that God sets his eyes on me as a woman. As several female poets say, men accuse us of being "crazy and witches" when we are intelligent and get ahead and have success.

I have a cousin who when he looks at me says, "Hello, Nobel Prize for Literature" in a mocking way, he envies me and there are many like that, they cannot stand that I am a writer. Another nephew told me when the Brewery published my book "The Wonderful Journey of Grandfather Rafael", "now you are famous" because the Brewery manages the advertising media and they made a great presentation for me, I attach the photos so that they are more envious ha, ha, ha. 😂😀

Every day I pray a Hymn to the Holy Spirit and ask Him to help me become a better writer every day and worthy of the trust God has placed in me.

I share the Hymn for you to pray, John Paul II, he prayed it since he was a child to understand mathematics and he became Pope, it is miraculous.

Hymn to the Holy Spirit

Photographs of the Presentation of the Book "The Wonderful Journey of Grandfather Rafael" in 2016, when I became famous, ha, ha, ha. 😉 Here is some news from that day.

Book presentation

I had so many interviews that I thought, "It's exhausting to be famous" ha, ha, ha.

All the books have already been sold, I have a few copies left that I have to deliver to a school, I am going to publish another edition, now that I have my Publishing House. 👌

The envious tell me, the Castillos from the Brewery, only exploited your grandfather and they are shit, because they are millionaires and we are not, but my grandfather was a worker and it is true, they did not give him a pension because at that time there was no labor code in Guatemala, and my grandfather was left without a job because he was old and died. And my father received an inheritance but he didn't have the intelligence to manage the money that my grandfather gave him. My grandfather had a lot of money and he was a great gentleman of his time.

The Brewery published the book because it was the story of its beginnings and they supported me as a writer. I'm not going to fight with them because that would be a bad idea. They always buy the new books that I publish for the children of the Castillo Foundation.

Dictatorships an ideological imposition

Dictatorships are ideological impositions because the ruler wants to stay in power at all costs to prevent another ideology from ruling. That is why leftists see Cuba as the mother of their ideology. However, no one wants to see a mother living in extreme poverty.

Pope Francis agreed with President Biden for Cuba to grant freedom to 553 prisoners, I am very happy for these people. I also don't see feeding 553 prisoners as being favorable for Cuba, as the people suffer from so much economic poverty. Because that is the sad thing about dictatorships, that the rulers accumulate wealth while the people live in extreme poverty.

Pope Francis has a good relationship with the left, John Paul II initiated this position when he visited Cuba and Fidel Castro was governing.

In Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro imposed a dictatorship, because apparently he will allow other presidential candidates to run but he will always be the winner. I have seen publications from Venezuelans who say that they live very well with him, but I see many Nicaraguans asking for money on the street, they go to Mexico and then to the United States. 

Mr. Edmundo Gonzáles came to Guatemala to visit President Arévalo. He claims to be the winner of the last elections in Venezuela, but Nicolás Maduro is the son of Chavismo and continues to sit in power there. 

Here in Guatemala there is a sector of rich families that are some from the center left and others from the extreme right and hate Maduro, so I believe they will support Mr. Edmundo Gonzales.

In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega and his wife govern, children of communism from the cold era and unfortunately they say that the wife has a group of satanic witches who are her government advisors. They removed the Catholic Church because they are antichrists and now they are removing Save the Children because they are afraid that Donald Trump will order a coup d'état.

Against dictators, the only solution is coups d'état or the people's revolution, or for the dictator to die, either by divine command that gives him an incurable disease as he did with Chávez, or dies from another cause.

Dictatorships only provoke hatred, no one supports dictators, because they are taxes and human beings by nature seek to free themselves from those political ties. Dictators see enemies everywhere and begin to imprison and murder their adversaries, which causes national and international rejection.

The Philosophy of Light is against dictatorships, whether left or right, and as a human being who believes in God, I pray that this entire situation can be modified for the good of the people. 

The Philosophy of Light is not a political ideology, it is a discipline that studies the fundamental principles of reality, existence and knowledge. Their form of government is based on governing people with love and peace, as is the heart of Jesus.