{"id":1261563,"date":"2023-10-11T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=e2c6d3a5e265c6587f4ca0cf3acfe72f"},"modified":"2023-10-11T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T19:13:09","slug":"guatemalan-protests-shut-down-countrys-highways-to-defend-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/11\/guatemalan-protests-shut-down-countrys-highways-to-defend-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemalan Protests Shut Down Country\u2019s Highways to Defend Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imelda Mej&iacute;a and her daughter held their homemade protest signs high, standing in the middle of the highway despite the blistering heat in the lowlands of northern Guatemala. Others sought shelter in the shade, doled out water and bread, and took turns on a megaphone to keep spirits high at the action in Santa Elena, nearly 300 miles north of Guatemala City. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re here because we need to defend...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/guatemalan-protests-shut-down-countrys-highways-to-defend-democracy\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/guatemalan-protests-shut-down-countrys-highways-to-defend-democracy\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemalans have set up more than 120 protest blockades around the country as a post-electoral crisis deepens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67542,432,31,1275,67602,4,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261564,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261563\/revisions\/1261564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}