On October 20, Guatemala reached 18 days of protests and road blockades that began on October 2 to demand the resignation of its attorney general, Consuelo Porras, without any agreements between the demonstrators and the questioned authorities, all in the aftermath of last June and August elections. 

A group of indigenous organizations from the departments of Alta Verapaz and Quiché (north) entered the Guatemalan capital in a caravan on Monday to support the demonstrations. 

On the other hand, some 500 indigenous people from more than a hundred communities woke up again in a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the Public Prosecutor's Office as a measure of pressure to demand the resignation of Porras. 

In a press conference, the indigenous authorities condemned the day before that the attorney general had decided not to meet with them to listen to their demands. 

The request for Porras' resignation arose after the Attorney General's Office decided to confiscate the results of the June 25 and August 20 elections. She is accused of trying to reverse the victory of the progressive Bernardo Arevalo de León. 

The president-elect accused Porras and the leadership of the Attorney General's Office of leading a "coup d'état" to prevent him from taking office on January 14. 

Bernardo Arevalo has met with civil society representatives to seek solutions to the political crisis the Central American country is going through due to the measures implemented by the Prosecutor's Office against his party, the Seed Movement. 

This first dialogue was also attended by representatives of the business sector and the authorities of the indigenous community, according to reports in the local press. 

Sources close to the matter have indicated that these talks are being "productive" and have pointed out that although there are differences between the parties, "there are other issues on which they do agree". "It was a good session of dialogue between the parties," said one of those present. 

This rapprochement comes after 18 days of protests and roadblockades to demand the resignation of Guatemalan Attorney General Consuelo Porras and the head of the Special Prosecutor's Office Against Impunity (FECI), Rafael Curruchiche, as well as Judge Fredy Orellana, all of whom are accused of trying to undermine the country's June electoral process. 

Trading to and from the west of the country is partially stopped, And in general, the backlog in the delivery of containers to ports persists. 

Regarding the banana industry, which has been seriously affected by the blockades, as has been emphasized by APIB, the Association of Independent Banana Producers of Guatemala, last week, on October 15, the banana farms in the south of the Central American country returned to harvest and pack the fruit once the accesses were unblocked. Although there is availability of trucks and a certain number of containers, the large quantities of empty containers piled up in the yards of the three ports and yards outside the ports still make exporting the fruit very complicated, if possible, according to local sources. 

The difficulties may last at least two more weeks until the port yards and the yards outside the ports are cleared, and the regular traffic between the farms and the docks is normal.